Timescales for Prebiotic Photochemistry Under Realistic Surface Ultraviolet Conditions

Oxidized micrometeorites suggest either high pCO2 or low pN2 during the Neoarchean

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Atmospheric CO2 levels from 2.7 billion years ago inferred from micrometeorite oxidation

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The origin of life as a planetary phenomenon

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Supply of phosphate to early Earth by photogeochemistry after meteoritic weathering

(2020) Dougal J. Ritson et al.   Nature Geoscience

TRAPPIST-1: Global results of the Spitzer exploration science program Red Worlds

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Selective prebiotic formation of RNA pyrimidine and DNA purine nucleosides

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Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution

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Harnessing chemical energy for the activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks

(2020) Ziwei Liu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Length-Selective Synthesis of Acylglycerol-Phosphates through Energy-Dissipative Cycling

(2019) Claudia Bonfio et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Hydrogen cyanide in nitrogen-rich atmospheres of rocky exoplanets

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Nitrogen Oxide Concentrations in Natural Waters on Early Earth

(2019) Sukrit Ranjan et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Prebiotic phosphorylation of 2-thiouridine provides either nucleotides or DNA building blocks via photoreduction

(2019) Jianfeng Xu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Peptide ligation by chemoselective aminonitrile coupling in water

(2019) Pierre Canavelli et al.   NATURE

The role of sugar-backbone heterogeneity and chimeras in the simultaneous emergence of RNA and DNA

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Probable Cold and Alkaline Surface Environment of the Hadean Earth Caused by Impact Ejecta Weathering

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Impact bombardment chronology of the terrestrial planets from 4.5 Ga to 3.5 Ga

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

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Sulfidic Anion Concentrations on Early Earth for Surficial Origins-of-Life Chemistry

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Solvated-electron production using cyanocuprates is compatible with the UV-environment on a Hadean–Archaean Earth

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Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide

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A Light-Releasable Potentially Prebiotic Nucleotide Activating Agent

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Constraining the climate and ocean pH of the early Earth with a geological carbon cycle model

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Selective prebiotic conversion of pyrimidine and purine anhydronucleosides into Watson-Crick base-pairing arabino-furanosyl nucleosides in water

(2018) Samuel J. Roberts et al.   Nature Communications

The origin of RNA precursors on exoplanets

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

pH-Driven RNA Strand Separation under Prebiotically Plausible Conditions

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

(2017) Michaël Gillon et al.   NATURE

UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron–sulfur clusters

(2017) Claudia Bonfio et al.   Nature Chemistry

The origin and degassing history of the Earth's atmosphere revealed by Archean xenon

(2017) Guillaume Avice et al.   Nature Communications

Divergent prebiotic synthesis of pyrimidine and 8-oxo-purine ribonucleotides

(2017) Shaun Stairs et al.   Nature Communications

Opinion: Studies on the origin of life — the end of the beginning

(2017) John D. Sutherland   Nature Reviews Chemistry

The Pale Orange Dot: The Spectrum and Habitability of Hazy Archean Earth

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Influence of the UV Environment on the Synthesis of Prebiotic Molecules

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Chromospheric activity and evolutionary age of the Sun and four solar twins

(2016) M. Mittag et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Ancient micrometeorites suggestive of an oxygen-rich Archaean upper atmosphere

(2016) Andrew G. Tomkins et al.   NATURE

Earth's air pressure 2.7 billion years ago constrained to less than half of modern levels

(2016) Sanjoy M. Som et al.   Nature Geoscience

Prebiotic chemistry and atmospheric warming of early Earth by an active young Sun

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Chromospheric activity and evolutionary age of the Sun and four solar twins

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Rapid oxygenation of Earths atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago

(2016) G. Luo et al.   Science Advances

The Origin of Life-Out of the Blue

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Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism

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Photoionization and photodissociation rates in solar and blackbody radiation fields

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A theoretical framework for volcanic degassing chemistry in a comparative planetology perspective and implications for planetary atmospheres

(2014) Fabrice Gaillard et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

High stellar FUV/NUV ratio and oxygen contents in the atmospheres of potentially habitable planets

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Hydrothermal modification of the Sikhote-Alin iron meteorite under low pH geothermal environments. A plausibly prebiotic route to activated phosphorus on the early Earth

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Glaciovolcanic hydrothermal environments in Iceland and implications for their detection on Mars

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The 1859 space weather event revisited: limits of extreme activity

(2013) Edward W. Cliver et al.   Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

THE EVOLUTION OF SOLAR FLUX FROM 0.1 nm TO 160 μm: QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES FOR PLANETARY STUDIES

(2012) Mark W. Claire et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Prebiotic synthesis of simple sugars by photoredox systems chemistry

(2012) Dougal Ritson et al.   Nature Chemistry

Revisiting HCN formation in Earth's early atmosphere

(2011) Feng Tian et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Effect of a Strong Stellar Flare on the Atmospheric Chemistry of an Earth-like Planet Orbiting an M Dwarf

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EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR ACTIVITY OVER TIME AND EFFECTS ON PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES. II. κ1Ceti, AN ANALOG OF THE SUN WHEN LIFE AROSE ON EARTH

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Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

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Deep-UV absorption and Rayleigh scattering of carbon dioxide

(2008) D. Ityaksov et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS