Extraterrestrials: Exobiology

An online guide to the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the Universe as well as all other aspects of space exploration.

An experimental page part of the MIT Net Advance project. Includes research and review articles, and offline as well as online materials.

A brief overview of creation of the universe and origins of life in our solar system.

Science@NASA article on an experiment designed for students of all ages to investigate life in extreme environments and to learn about the possibilities for life elsewhere in the Solar System.

TERC and NASA are developing an interdisciplinary, year-long course for middle and high school students using astrobiology as its unifying, underlying structure.

The NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training in Gravitational Biology is a partnership with Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering at Rice University.

The modern version of panspermia, Cosmic Ancestry treats all of evolution, not just the origin of life on Earth.

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Researches and teaches "biology with a global perspective."

A member of NASA's Astrobiology Institute. The Arizona State University program studies the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the solar system.

The NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training at the New York Center for Studies of the Origins of Life. A partnership with RPI and SUNY-Albany.

Located in the Astrophysics Branch of the Space Sciences Division at NASA's Ames Research Center. Specializes in the study of extraterrestrial materials and their analogs.

PSARC's primary mission is to conduct multidisciplinary research and education in Astrobiology as a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Explores the field of exobiology from a lay perspective including a self-test. Part of the Cruising Chemistry project at Duke.

The University of Washington's graduate certificate program enables students to obtain the interdepartmental background necessary. Focus is on Earth's extreme microbial environments.

Based at Macquarie University, the centre includes astrobiologists from around Australia. The ACA is Australia's international member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

The SWAN network is a non-profit association of Swedish scientists, who share an interest in astrobiology.

Gives examples of microbes that survive the vacuum of space. Discusses Neo-Darwinism.

Conference paper on the solar wind propelled interplanetary viral and bacterial movements.

Explores events that led to the origin of life on earth.