Introduction—First Billion Years: Habitability

Ceres: Astrobiological Target and Possible Ocean World

(2020) Julie C. Castillo-Rogez et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Habitability of Hydrothermal Systems at Jezero and Gusev Craters as Constrained by Hydrothermal Alteration of a Terrestrial Mafic Dike

(2020) Lacey J. Costello et al.   CHEMIE DER ERDE-GEOCHEMISTRY

Olivine‐Carbonate Mineralogy of the Jezero Crater Region

(2020) A. J. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

The Archean atmosphere

(2020) David C. Catling et al.   Science Advances

Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater

(2020) David A. Kring et al.   Science Advances

The gravity field and interior structure of Dione

(2020) Marco Zannoni et al.   ICARUS

Protoenzymes: The Case of Hyperbranched Polymer-Scaffolded ZnS Nanocrystals

(2020) Irena Mamajanov et al.   Life-Basel

Phase Equilibria Modeling of Low‐grade Metamorphic Martian Rocks

(2019) J. Semprich et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

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

Atmosphere oxygen cycling through the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic

(2019) Ross R. Large et al.   MINERALIUM DEPOSITA

Evidence for Biotic Perchlorate Reduction in Naturally Perchlorate-Rich Sediments of Pilot Valley Basin, Utah

(2019) Kennda L. Lynch et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Accounting for multiplicity in calculating eta Earth

(2019) Jon K Zink et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Selective incorporation of proteinaceous over nonproteinaceous cationic amino acids in model prebiotic oligomerization reactions

(2019) Moran Frenkel-Pinter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial compartments at the origins of life

(2019) Tony Z. Jia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Key Insights, Challenges, and Prospects

(2019) Nikku Madhusudhan   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Terrestrial Hot Spring Systems: Introduction

(2019) David J. Des Marais et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A productivity collapse to end Earth’s Great Oxidation

(2019) Malcolm S. W. Hodgskiss et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Case for Ancient Hot Springs in Gusev Crater, Mars

(2019) Steven W. Ruff et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Intersection of Geology, Geochemistry, and Microbiology in Continental Hydrothermal Systems

(2019) Daniel R. Colman et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Orbital Identification of Hydrated Silica in Jezero Crater, Mars

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

The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life

(2019) Bruce Damer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Free and kerogen‐bound biomarkers from late Tonian sedimentary rocks record abundant eukaryotes in mid‐Neoproterozoic marine communities

(2019) J. Alex Zumberge et al.   Geobiology

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life

(2018) Edward W. Schwieterman et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Fingerprinting Non-Terran Biosignatures

(2018) Sarah S. Johnson et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Exoplanet Biosignatures: Observational Prospects

(2018) Yuka Fujii et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Amyloid and the origin of life: self-replicating catalytic amyloids as prebiotic informational and protometabolic entities

(2018) Carl Peter J. Maury   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Disequilibrium biosignatures over Earth history and implications for detecting exoplanet life

(2018) Joshua Krissansen-Totton et al.   Science Advances

The Central Pit and Dome at Cerealia Facula Bright Deposit and Floor Deposits in Occator Crater, Ceres: Morphology, Comparisons and Formation

(2018) Paul Schenk et al.   ICARUS

Post-Impact Thermal Structure and Cooling Timescales of Occator Crater on Asteroid 1 Ceres

(2018) Timothy J. Bowling et al.   ICARUS

Triple oxygen isotope evidence for limited mid-Proterozoic primary productivity

(2018) Peter W. Crockford et al.   NATURE

Yellowstone Hot Springs are Organic Chemodiversity Hot Spots

(2018) Michael Gonsior et al.   Scientific Reports

The origin of RNA precursors on exoplanets

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

A sluggish mid-Proterozoic biosphere and its effect on Earth's redox balance

(2018) Kazumi Ozaki et al.   Geobiology

A small marine biosphere in the Proterozoic

(2018) Thomas A. Laakso et al.   Geobiology

Geology and mineralogy of the Auki Crater, Tyrrhena Terra, Mars: A possible post impact-induced hydrothermal system

(2017) F.G. Carrozzo et al.   ICARUS

The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

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

(2017) Matthew S. Dodd et al.   NATURE

Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1

(2017) Michaël Gillon et al.   NATURE

Orbital remote sensing of impact-induced hydrothermal systems on Mars

(2017) Pragya Singh et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

SIMS analyses of the oldest known assemblage of microfossils document their taxon-correlated carbon isotope compositions

(2017) J. William Schopf 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

Atmospheric oxygen regulation at low Proterozoic levels by incomplete oxidative weathering of sedimentary organic carbon

(2017) Stuart J. Daines et al.   Nature Communications

Deciphering Selectivity in Organic Reactions: A Multifaceted Problem

(2016) David Balcells et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Habitability: A Review

(2016) C.S. Cockell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The PLATO Mission

(2016) H. Rauer et al.   ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN

Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

(2016) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   NATURE

The habitability of planets orbiting M-dwarf stars

(2016) Aomawa L. Shields et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

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

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

Hydrothermal activity recorded in post Noachian-aged impact craters on Mars

(2016) Stuart M. R. Turner et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Petrology on Mars

(2015) Harry Y. McSween   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

A redox-stratified ocean 3.2 billion years ago

(2015) Aaron M. Satkoski et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Prerequisites for explosive cryovolcanism on dwarf planet-class Kuiper belt objects

(2015) M. Neveu et al.   ICARUS

Age aspects of habitability

(2015) M. Safonova et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

The Proterozoic Record of Eukaryotes

(2015) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

The universal tree of life: an update

(2015) Patrick Forterre   Frontiers in Microbiology

Near-infrared spectroscopy of lacustrine sediments in the Great Salt Lake Desert: An analog study for Martian paleolake basins

(2015) Kennda L. Lynch et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

The search for a subsurface ocean in Ganymede with Hubble Space Telescope observations of its auroral ovals

(2015) Joachim Saur et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS

Paradoxes in the Origin of Life

(2015) Steven A. Benner   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

The Drive to Life on Wet and Icy Worlds

(2014) Michael J. Russell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

(2014) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

Metabolic Evolution of a Deep-Branching Hyperthermophilic Chemoautotrophic Bacterium

(2014) Rogier Braakman et al.   PLoS One

Dynamics of the Yellowstone hydrothermal system

(2014) Shaul Hurwitz et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Scratching the surface of martian habitability

(2014) P. G. Conrad   SCIENCE

Ancient Aqueous Environments at Endeavour Crater, Mars

(2014) R. E. Arvidson et al.   SCIENCE

The Gravity Field and Interior Structure of Enceladus

(2014) L. Iess et al.   SCIENCE

Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

(2014) N. J. Planavsky et al.   SCIENCE

The YNP metagenome project: environmental parameters responsible for microbial distribution in the Yellowstone geothermal ecosystem

(2014) William Inskeep   Frontiers in Microbiology

The “Strong” RNA World Hypothesis: Fifty Years Old

(2013) Marc Neveu et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A REVISED ESTIMATE OF THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS IN THE HABITABLE ZONES AROUNDKEPLERM-DWARFS

(2013) Ravi Kumar Kopparapu   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Spontaneous Prebiotic Formation of a β-Ribofuranoside That Self-Assembles with a Complementary Heterocycle

(2013) Michael C. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Efficient Self-Assembly in Water of Long Noncovalent Polymers by Nucleobase Analogues

(2013) Brian J. Cafferty et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Alteration mineralogy of Home Plate and Columbia Hills-Formation conditions in context to impact, volcanism, and fluvial activity

(2013) Justin Filiberto et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars

(2013) E. A. Petigura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cyanobacterial construction of hot spring siliceous stromatolites in Yellowstone National Park

(2012) Charles Pepe-Ranney et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Impact-generated hydrothermal systems on Earth and Mars

(2012) Gordon R. Osinski et al.   ICARUS

One or more bound planets per Milky Way star from microlensing observations

(2012) A. Cassan et al.   NATURE

The Tides of Titan

(2012) L. Iess et al.   SCIENCE

LATE ORBITAL INSTABILITIES IN THE OUTER PLANETS INDUCED BY INTERACTION WITH A SELF-GRAVITATING PLANETESIMAL DISK

(2011) Harold F. Levison et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

Oxygen overshoot and recovery during the early Paleoproterozoic

(2011) A. Bekker et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Hydrogen-isotopic variability in fatty acids from Yellowstone National Park hot spring microbial communities

(2011) Magdalena R. Osburn et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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

Discovery of pulsar planets

(2011) Alex Wolszczan   NEW ASTRONOMY REVIEWS

The RNA Worlds in Context

(2011) T. R. Cech   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

ON THE LIKELIHOOD OF PLATE TECTONICS ON SUPER-EARTHS: DOES SIZE MATTER?

(2010) Jun Korenaga   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment

(2009) Oleg Abramov et al.   NATURE

Self-Propagating β-Sheet Polypeptide Structures as Prebiotic Informational Molecular Entities: The Amyloid World

(2009) C. P. J. Maury   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme

(2009) T. A. Lincoln et al.   SCIENCE

A Case for Ancient Springs in Arabia Terra, Mars

(2008) Carlton C. Allen et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Hydrothermal origin of halogens at Home Plate, Gusev Crater

(2008) Mariek E. Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Hydrothermal processes at Gusev Crater: An evaluation of Paso Robles class soils

(2008) A. S. Yen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Parallel adaptations to high temperatures in the Archaean eon

(2008) Bastien Boussau et al.   NATURE

Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

(2008) C. Scott et al.   NATURE

Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

(2008) William Martin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Geological setting of Earth's oldest fossils in the ca. 3.5Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

(2008) M VANKRANENDONK et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH