- Australian Centre for Astrobiology (ACA)
Undertaking research in microbiology, as well as physics, astronomy, cosmology, and the media.
aca.unsw.edu.au
- Looking for Life in All the Right Places
SPACE.com video showcasing the NASA scientists who pick spots to search for signs of extraterrestrial life.
www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=270707Phoenix
- Astro-Venture
Allows grade school students to role-play NASA careers, as they search for and design a planet that would be habitable to humans. Highlights NASA careers and astrobiology research in: astronomy, geology, biology, and atmospheric sciences.
www.astroventure.arc.nasa.gov
- Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe
SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe is dedicated to to understanding the origins of life or the extent to which life may be present beyond Earth.
www.seti.org/Page.aspx?pid=237
- Ask an Astrobiologist
From the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI).
nai.arc.nasa.gov/astrobio/index.cfm
- Astrobiology - New Scientist
News articles and exclusive features focused on the search for extraterrestrial life.
www.newscientist.com/topic/astrobiology
- Marsbugs: The Electronic Astrobiology Newsletter
Provides a channel of information for scientists, educators, and other persons interested in life sciences as they relate to planetary science and space exploration.
www.lyon.edu/projects/marsbugs
- Scientific American: Where Are They?
Maybe we are alone in the galaxy after all.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0009CDEA-33FC-1C74-9B81809EC588EF21
- Life on Earth...and Elsewhere?
(PDF)
Offers hands-on activities that lay the conceptual groundwork for understanding the field of astrobiology and enable students to examine the nature of life, what it requires, its limits, and where it might be found.
nai.arc.nasa.gov/library/downloads/erg.pdf
- Astrobiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Seeks an understanding about the genotypic/phenotypic evolution of early life forms and how changing environments contributed to the development of complex systems in simple organisms.
www.mbl.edu/Astrobiology
- Exobiology in the Solar System & The Search for Life on Mars
(PDF)
Report from the ESA Exobiology Team Study 1997-1998.
esapub.esrin.esa.it/sp/sp1231/sp1231.pdf
- Astrobiology, Extreme Environments and Terraformation Index
Offers online articles, books, and links to other sites concerned with astrobiology.
www.lyon.edu/projects/marsbugs/astrobiology
- Astrobiology: The Search for Life
Directory pointing to articles about extremophiles, astrobiologists, astrobiology tools, and other resources.
www.exploratorium.edu/origins/arecibo
- Cambridge Journals Online - International Journal of Astrobiology
journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal;jsessionid=2D213571675388D0539...
- ISSOL - The International Astrobiology Society
www.issol.org/wordpress
- The Planetary Society: LIFE experiment
The Planetary Society plans to send a collection of living organisms to the martian moon Phobos in order to find out if life can transfer from planet to planet.
www.planetary.org/programs/projects/innovative_technologies/life
- EXTRATERRESTRIAL
National Geographic Channel program contemplating what life on another world might really look like.
channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/extraterrestrial/ax/main_fs.html
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