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

Ancient hydrothermal seafloor deposits in Eridania basin on Mars

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

Habitability: A Review

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

The Last Possible Outposts for Life on Mars

(2016) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Thermal effects of impact bombardments on Noachian Mars

(2016) Oleg Abramov et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Crown group Oxyphotobacteria postdate the rise of oxygen

(2016) P. M. Shih et al.   Geobiology

Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures

(2016) Allen P. Nutman et al.   NATURE

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

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

Orbital evidence for more widespread carbonate-bearing rocks on Mars

(2016) James J. Wray et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota

(2016) Inka Vanwonterghem et al.   Nature Microbiology

Hydrothermal Conditions and the Origin of Cellular Life

(2015) David W. Deamer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Widespread surface weathering on early Mars: A case for a warmer and wetter climate

(2015) John Carter et al.   ICARUS

Timing of water plume eruptions on Enceladus explained by interior viscosity structure

(2015) Marie Běhounková et al.   Nature Geoscience

Fluid mixing and the deep biosphere of a fossil Lost City-type hydrothermal system at the Iberia Margin

(2015) Frieder Klein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon

(2015) Elizabeth A. Bell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Groundwater activity on Mars and implications for a deep biosphere

(2013) Joseph R. Michalski et al.   Nature Geoscience

Manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis before the rise of cyanobacteria

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

Time history of the Martian dynamo from crater magnetic field analysis

(2013) Robert J. Lillis et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Experimental delta formation in crater lakes and implications for interpretation of Martian deltas

(2013) Germari de Villiers et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

A sawtooth-like timeline for the first billion years of lunar bombardment

(2012) A. Morbidelli et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Global modelling of the early martian climate under a denser CO2 atmosphere: Water cycle and ice evolution

(2012) R. Wordsworth et al.   ICARUS

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

Outgassing History and Escape of the Martian Atmosphere and Water Inventory

(2012) Helmut Lammer et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Geochemistry of Carbonates on Mars: Implications for Climate History and Nature of Aqueous Environments

(2012) Paul B. Niles et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Hydrous minerals on Mars as seen by the CRISM and OMEGA imaging spectrometers: Updated global view

(2012) J. Carter et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

A fracture history on Enceladus provides evidence for a global ocean

(2011) D. Alex Patthoff et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Active formation of ‘chaos terrain’ over shallow subsurface water on Europa

(2011) B. E. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Subsurface water and clay mineral formation during the early history of Mars

(2011) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   NATURE

Origin and Evolution of Prebiotic Organic Matter As Inferred from the Tagish Lake Meteorite

(2011) C. D. K. Herd et al.   SCIENCE

Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life

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

Geologic setting of serpentine deposits on Mars

(2010) B. L. Ehlmann et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Evidence for Hesperian impact-induced hydrothermalism on Mars

(2010) Giuseppe A. Marzo et al.   ICARUS

Sequence and timing of conditions on early Mars

(2010) Caleb I. Fassett et al.   ICARUS

Follow the methane: the search for a deep biosphere, and the case for sampling serpentinites, on Mars

(2010) John Parnell et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

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

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

Deep crustal carbonate rocks exposed by meteor impact on Mars

(2010) Joseph R. Michalski et al.   Nature Geoscience

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

Ionizing radiation: how fungi cope, adapt, and exploit with the help of melanin

(2008) Ekaterina Dadachova et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Cell proliferation at 122 C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation

(2008) K. Takai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Detection of Silica-Rich Deposits on Mars

(2008) S. W. Squyres et al.   SCIENCE