Factoring Origin of Life Hypotheses into the Search for Life in the Solar System and Beyond

The Carbonate Geochemistry of Enceladus' Ocean

(2020) Christopher R. Glein et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Limited Archaean continental emergence reflected in an early Archaean 18O-enriched ocean

(2020) Benjamin W. Johnson et al.   Nature Geoscience

Present-day volcanism on Venus as evidenced from weathering rates of olivine

(2020) Justin Filiberto et al.   Science Advances

Venusian Habitable Climate Scenarios: Modeling Venus Through Time and Applications to Slowly Rotating Venus‐Like Exoplanets

(2020) M. J. Way et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

The Dallol Geothermal Area, Northern Afar (Ethiopia)—An Exceptional Planetary Field Analog on Earth

(2019) B. Cavalazzi et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks

(2019) Shuichi Hoshika et al.   SCIENCE

Redox and pH gradients drive amino acid synthesis in iron oxyhydroxide mineral systems

(2019) Laura M. Barge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Consistent Reduced Network for HCN Chemistry in Early Earth and Titan Atmospheres: Quantum Calculations of Reaction Rate Coefficients

(2019) Ben K. D. Pearce et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Terrestrial-like zircon in a clast from an Apollo 14 breccia

(2019) J.J. Bellucci et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Deep and methane-rich lakes on Titan

(2019) M. Mastrogiuseppe et al.   Nature Astronomy

Paleo-Rock-Hosted Life on Earth and the Search on Mars: A Review and Strategy for Exploration

(2019) T.C. Onstott et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Sodium chloride on the surface of Europa

(2019) Samantha K. Trumbo et al.   Science Advances

Nano−porous pyrite and organic matter in 3.5-billion-year-old stromatolites record primordial life

(2019) Raphael J. Baumgartner et al.   GEOLOGY

Water vapour in the atmosphere of the habitable-zone eight-Earth-mass planet K2-18 b

(2019) Angelos Tsiaras et al.   Nature Astronomy

The Case for Ancient Hot Springs in Gusev Crater, Mars

(2019) Steven W. Ruff et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Hydrothermal Chemistry and the Origin of Cellular Life

(2019) David Deamer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Orbital Identification of Hydrated Silica in Jezero Crater, Mars

(2019) J. D. Tarnas et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

An interval of high salinity in ancient Gale crater lake on Mars

(2019) W. Rapin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Extraterrestrial ribose and other sugars in primitive meteorites

(2019) Yoshihiro Furukawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earth's earliest and deepest purported fossils may be iron-mineralized chemical gardens

(2019) Sean McMahon   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Unified prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine and purine RNA ribonucleotides

(2019) Sidney Becker et al.   SCIENCE

Promotion of protocell self-assembly from mixed amphiphiles at the origin of life

(2019) Sean F. Jordan et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life

(2019) Bruce Damer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A carbonate-rich lake solution to the phosphate problem of the origin of life

(2019) Jonathan D. Toner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Habitability of Proxima Centauri b: Environmental States and Observational Discriminants

(2018) Victoria S. Meadows et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A Hydrothermal-Sedimentary Context for the Origin of Life

(2018) F. Westall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Constraining the Time Interval for the Origin of Life on Earth

(2018) Ben K.D. Pearce et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The nature of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets

(2018) Simon L. Grimm et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Formation of stromatolite lamina at the interface of oxygenic-anoxygenic photosynthesis

(2018) A. Pace et al.   Geobiology

The Ice Cap Zone: A Unique Habitable Zone for Ocean Worlds

(2018) Ramses M Ramirez et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The geological and climatological case for a warmer and wetter early Mars

(2018) Ramses M. Ramirez et al.   Nature Geoscience

A post-Cassini view of Titan’s methane-based hydrologic cycle

(2018) Alexander G. Hayes et al.   Nature Geoscience

Acetyl Phosphate as a Primordial Energy Currency at the Origin of Life

(2018) Alexandra Whicher et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

The science process for selecting the landing site for the 2020 Mars rover

(2018) John A. Grant et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The nature of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets

(2018) Simon L. Grimm et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Origins of building blocks of life: A review

(2018) Norio Kitadai et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

A Field Guide to Finding Fossils on Mars

(2018) S. McMahon et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Traverses for the ISECG-GER design reference mission for humans on the lunar surface

(2018) Elyse J. Allender et al.   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

It is Neither Frankenstein Nor a Submarine Alkaline Vent, It is Just the Second Law

(2018) David S. Ross   BIOESSAYS

Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars

(2018) R. Orosei et al.   SCIENCE

The origin of RNA precursors on exoplanets

(2018) Paul B. Rimmer et al.   Science Advances

Incision of paleolake outlet canyons on Mars from overflow flooding

(2018) Timothy A. Goudge et al.   GEOLOGY

A dual nitrite isotopic investigation of chemodenitrification by mineral-associated Fe(II) and its production of nitrous oxide

(2017) Kalina C. Grabb et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Heat transport in the high-pressure ice mantle of large icy moons

(2017) G. Choblet et al.   ICARUS

Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates

(2017) Matthew S. Dodd et al.   NATURE

The Martian subsurface as a potential window into the origin of life

(2017) Joseph R. Michalski et al.   Nature Geoscience

Chance, necessity and the origins of life: a physical sciences perspective

(2017) Robert M. Hazen   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds

(2017) Ben K. D. Pearce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cassini finds molecular hydrogen in the Enceladus plume: Evidence for hydrothermal processes

(2017) J. Hunter Waite et al.   SCIENCE

Earliest signs of life on land preserved in ca. 3.5 Ga hot spring deposits

(2017) Tara Djokic et al.   Nature Communications

Ancient hydrothermal seafloor deposits in Eridania basin on Mars

(2017) Joseph R. Michalski et al.   Nature Communications

Nuclear geyser model of the origin of life: Driving force to promote the synthesis of building blocks of life

(2017) Toshikazu Ebisuzaki et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Titan's atmosphere and climate

(2017) S. M. Hörst   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Two billion years of magmatism recorded from a single Mars meteorite ejection site

(2017) Thomas J. Lapen et al.   Science Advances

Esperance: Multiple episodes of aqueous alteration involving fracture fills and coatings at Matijevic Hill, Mars

(2016) Benton C. Clark et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

The Climate of Titan

(2016) Jonathan L. Mitchell et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The Origin of Life in Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents

(2016) Victor Sojo et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Liquid-filled canyons on Titan

(2016) V. Poggiali et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Was Venus the first habitable world of our solar system?

(2016) M. J. Way et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Enceladus’s measured physical libration requires a global subsurface ocean

(2016) P.C. Thomas et al.   ICARUS

In Praise of Error

(2016) Günter Wächtershäuser   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Sunlight as an energetic driver in the synthesis of molecules necessary for life

(2016) Rebecca J. Rapf et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile

(2016) Steven W. Ruff et al.   Nature Communications

Hydrothermal vents and prebiotic chemistry: a review

(2016) María Colín-García   Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana

Ocean worlds in the outer solar system

(2016) F. Nimmo et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Ancient Sedimentary Structures in the

(2015) Nora Noffke   ASTROBIOLOGY

RNA Oligomerization in Laboratory Analogues of Alkaline Hydrothermal Vent Systems

(2015) Bradley T. Burcar et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Biosignatures on Mars: What, Where, and How? Implications for the Search for Martian Life

(2015) Frances Westall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Extreme Water Loss and Abiotic O2 Buildup on Planets Throughout the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs

(2015) R. Luger et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Bio-inspired CO2 conversion by iron sulfide catalysts under sustainable conditions

(2015) A. Roldan et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

The pH of Enceladus’ ocean

(2015) Christopher R. Glein et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus

(2015) Hsiang-Wen Hsu et al.   NATURE

Heat flux across an open pore enables the continuous replication and selection of oligonucleotides towards increasing length

(2015) Moritz Kreysing et al.   Nature Chemistry

Strong water isotopic anomalies in the martian atmosphere: Probing current and ancient reservoirs

(2015) G. L. Villanueva et al.   SCIENCE

MAVEN observations of the response of Mars to an interplanetary coronal mass ejection

(2015) B. M. Jakosky et al.   SCIENCE

Comparison of “warm and wet” and “cold and icy” scenarios for early Mars in a 3-D climate model

(2015) Robin D. Wordsworth et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Assessing the mineralogy of the watershed and fan deposits of the Jezero crater paleolake system, Mars

(2015) Timothy A. Goudge et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

The geological history of Nili Patera, Mars

(2015) P. Fawdon et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Membrane alternatives in worlds without oxygen: Creation of an azotosome

(2015) J. Stevenson et al.   Science Advances

Mineralogy of the Martian Surface

(2014) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Reconstructing the aqueous history within the southwestern Melas basin, Mars: Clues from stratigraphic and morphometric analyses of fans

(2014) Rebecca M.E. Williams et al.   ICARUS

Generation of Oligonucleotides Under Hydrothermal Conditions by Non-enzymatic Polymerization

(2014) Veronica DeGuzman et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

An Origin-of-Life Reactor to Simulate Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents

(2014) Barry Herschy et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Physico-chemical and environmental controls on siliceous sinter formation at the high-altitude El Tatio geothermal field, Chile

(2014) Constanza Nicolau et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Observations of Transiting Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

(2014) Charles Beichman et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

Early accretion of water in the inner solar system from a carbonaceous chondrite-like source

(2014) A. R. Sarafian et al.   SCIENCE

A Possible Prebiotic Origin on Volcanic Islands of Oligopyrrole-Type Photopigments and Electron Transfer Cofactors

(2013) Stefan Fox et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The “Strong” RNA World Hypothesis: Fifty Years Old

(2013) Marc Neveu et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Habitability on Mars from a Microbial Point of View

(2013) Frances Westall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Moon and the early Earth

(2013) I. Crawford   ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS

Emergence of two types of terrestrial planet on solidification of magma ocean

(2013) Keiko Hamano et al.   NATURE

A Comprehensive Census of Microbial Diversity in Hot Springs of Tengchong, Yunnan Province China Using 16S rRNA Gene Pyrosequencing

(2013) Weiguo Hou et al.   PLoS One

A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars

(2013) J. P. Grotzinger et al.   SCIENCE

Kepler-62: A Five-Planet System with Planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth Radii in the Habitable Zone

(2013) W. J. Borucki et al.   SCIENCE

In Situ Radiometric and Exposure Age Dating of the Martian Surface

(2013) K. A. Farley et al.   SCIENCE

Cryovolcanism on Titan: New results from Cassini RADAR and VIMS

(2013) R. M. C. Lopes et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics

(2012) Nick Lane et al.   CELL

Origin of first cells at terrestrial, anoxic geothermal fields

(2012) A. Y. Mulkidjanian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Tides of Titan

(2012) L. Iess et al.   SCIENCE

Selection of the Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site

(2012) M. Golombek et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Two types of Archean continental crust: Plume and plate tectonics on early Earth

(2011) M. J. Van Kranendonk   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Preservation of Martian Organic and Environmental Records: Final Report of the Mars Biosignature Working Group

(2011) Roger E. Summons et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Characteristics, distribution, origin, and significance of opaline silica observed by the Spirit rover in Gusev crater, Mars

(2011) Steven W. Ruff et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Prebiotic chemistry: a new modus operandi

(2011) M. W. Powner et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Astrobiology—What Can We Do on the Moon?

(2010) Charles S. Cockell   EARTH MOON AND PLANETS

Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life

(2010) M. J. RUSSELL et al.   Geobiology

Silica deposits in the Nili Patera caldera on the Syrtis Major volcanic complex on Mars

(2010) J. R. Skok et al.   Nature Geoscience

The Organic Composition of Carbonaceous Meteorites: The Evolutionary Story Ahead of Biochemistry

(2010) S. Pizzarello et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Mineral Surfaces, Geochemical Complexities, and the Origins of Life

(2010) R. M. Hazen et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

A synthesis of Martian aqueous mineralogy after 1 Mars year of observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

(2009) Scott L. Murchie et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment

(2009) Oleg Abramov et al.   NATURE

Controls on development and diversity of Early Archean stromatolites

(2009) A. C. Allwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GEOCHEMISTRY: Life on an Anaerobic Planet

(2009) F. Westall   SCIENCE

Mineral evolution

(2008) R. M. Hazen et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

NATURAL TRANSFER OF VIABLE MICROBES IN SPACE FROM PLANETS IN EXTRA-SOLAR SYSTEMS TO A PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND VICE VERSA

(2008) Mauri Valtonen et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Felsic highland crust on Venus suggested by Galileo Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer data

(2008) George L. Hashimoto et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

(2008) William Martin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Detection of Silica-Rich Deposits on Mars

(2008) S. W. Squyres et al.   SCIENCE

Atmospheric Escape and Evolution of Terrestrial Planets and Satellites

(2008) Helmut Lammer et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS