Keith’s note: NASA JPL issued a press release on Monday titled “Mission to Jupiter’s Icy Moon Confirmed“. Great news for the Astrobiology community as noted by the release – except […]
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NASA Makes Big Astrobiology Mission Announcement Without Saying "Astrobiology"
NASA’s Dragonfly Will Fly Around Titan Looking for Origins, Signs of Life, NASA “NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world […]
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NASA Leads The World In Astrobiology. Wow, Who Knew?
Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels On Mars “This week, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover found a surprising result: the largest amount of methane ever measured during the mission — about […]
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NASA Can't Figure Out What Astrobiology Is – Or Who Does It
Keith’s note: If you visit the NASA Mars 2020 website and go to the Science page it talks about the mission’s strategy as being to “Seek Signs of Life” on […]
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Getting Serious About Astrobiology
Breakthrough Watch and European Southern Observatory Achieve First Light on Upgraded Planet-finding Instrument “Pete Worden, Executive Director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, said: “We’re delighted to collaborate with the ESO in […]
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OIG Report on NASA Europa Missions
NASA OIG Audit: Management Of NASA’s Europa Mission “Despite robust early-stage funding, a series of significant developmental and personnel resource challenges place the Clipper’s current mission cost estimates and planned […]
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2019 Breakthrough Discuss Conference: Migration of Life in the Universe
The 2019 Breakthrough Discuss Conference: “Migration of Life in the Universe” is being held on 11-12 April. A live webcast starts at 800 am PDT/1100 am EDT at http://www.youtube.com/breakthroughprize. Details […]
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NASA's Astrobiology Program Works Hard To Ignore Itself
Keith’s 23 February note: Last thursday NASA HQ issued a press release “NASA-Funded Research Creates DNA-like Molecule to Aid Search for Alien Life“ which notes that “this new molecular system, […]
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There Is Now Life On Two Worlds In Our Solar System
There is now life on two worlds in our solar system. A cotton seed has sprouted inside Change4's greenhouse on the far side of the Moon. #Change4 #astrobiology #spacebiology pic.twitter.com/x2bZsCtNCh […]
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NASA Leads In Astrobiology. It Needs To Act That Way.
Keith’s note: Yesterday I posted an item “NASA Is Incapable Of Explaining How It Does Astrobiology” about Astrobiology-related news from NASA that made no mention of NASA’s Astrobiology program. I […]