Ionizing Radiation and Life

Voyagers 1 and 2 in a shrunken and squashed heliosphere

(2011) W. R. Webber et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Borate Minerals and Origin of the RNA World

(2011) Edward S. Grew et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Transport Rates of Radiolytic Substances into Europa's Ocean: Implications for the Potential Origin and Maintenance of Life

(2010) Richard Greenberg   ASTROBIOLOGY

Supernovae and the Chirality of the Amino Acids

(2010) R.N. Boyd et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Origin and Evolution of Life on Terrestrial Planets

(2010) A. Brack et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Low-Temperature Ionizing Radiation Resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans and Antarctic Dry Valley Bacteria

(2010) Lewis R. Dartnell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

(2010) Antígona Segura et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Lunar Palaeoregolith Deposits as Recorders of the Galactic Environment of the Solar System and Implications for Astrobiology

(2010) Ian A. Crawford et al.   EARTH MOON AND PLANETS

Preservation potential of implanted solar wind volatiles in lunar paleoregolith deposits buried by lava flows

(2010) Sarah A. Fagents et al.   ICARUS

Space Microbiology

(2010) G. Horneck et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Geodynamo, Solar Wind, and Magnetopause 3.4 to 3.45 Billion Years Ago

(2010) J. A. Tarduno et al.   SCIENCE

Observations and Models of the Long-Term Evolution of Earth’s Magnetic Field

(2010) Julien Aubert et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Magnetic Polarity Transitions and Biospheric Effects

(2010) Karl-Heinz Glassmeier et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Planetary Organic Chemistry and the Origins of Biomolecules

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

Complex Organic Interstellar Molecules

(2009) Eric Herbst et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Monte Carlo Simulation of the Radiation Environment Encountered by a Biochip During a Space Mission to Mars

(2009) A. Le Postollec et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Spores in Granite Survive Hypervelocity Launch by Spallation: Implications for Lithopanspermia

(2009) Patricia Fajardo-Cavazos et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Cosmic Rays: A Review for Astrobiologists

(2009) Franco Ferrari et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Habitable Zones Exposed: Astrosphere Collapse Frequency as a Function of Stellar Mass

(2009) David S. Smith et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Investigation of Neutron Radiation Effects on Polyclonal Antibodies (IgG) and Fluorescein Dye for Astrobiological Applications

(2009) A. Le Postollec et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Cosmic-ray ionization of molecular clouds

(2009) M. Padovani et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

What makes a planet habitable?

(2009) H. Lammer et al.   ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW

TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND GALACTIC SPIRAL ARM TRANSIT

(2009) Andrew C. Overholt et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Short-term effects of gamma ray bursts on Earth

(2009) Osmel Martín et al.   ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE

Can cosmic rays affect cloud condensation nuclei by altering new particle formation rates?

(2009) J. R. Pierce et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Cosmic ray decreases affect atmospheric aerosols and clouds

(2009) Henrik Svensmark et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A photochemical model of Titan's atmosphere and ionosphere

(2009) Vladimir A. Krasnopolsky   ICARUS

Effects of ionizing radiation on the survival of bacterial spores in artificial martian regolith

(2009) Ralf Moeller et al.   ICARUS

Gamma-ray bursts as a threat to life on Earth

(2009) B.C. Thomas   International Journal of Astrobiology

The evidence for and against astronomical impacts on climate change and mass extinctions: a review

(2009) C.A.L. Bailer-Jones   International Journal of Astrobiology

Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosion

(2009) A. Gal-Yam et al.   NATURE

Beyond the myth of the supernova-remnant origin of cosmic rays

(2009) Yousaf Butt   NATURE

The dawn of the particle astronomy era in ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

(2009) Pablo M. Bauleo et al.   NATURE

The formation of the first stars and galaxies

(2009) Volker Bromm et al.   NATURE

A new perspective on radiation resistance based on Deinococcus radiodurans

(2009) Michael J. Daly   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Late Ordovician geographic patterns of extinction compared with simulations of astrophysical ionizing radiation damage

(2009) Adrian L. Melott et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Negative ion chemistry in Titan's upper atmosphere

(2009) V. Vuitton et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Angular momentum and the formation of stars and black holes

(2009) Richard B Larson   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Dynamics of the Earth’s Particle Radiation Environment

(2009) Rami Vainio et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ancient micronauts: interplanetary transport of microbes by cosmic impacts

(2009) Wayne L. Nicholson   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Ionization of the earth’s atmosphere by solar and galactic cosmic rays

(2008) Ilya G. Usoskin et al.   Acta Geophysica

Interstellar planetary protection

(2008) Charles S. Cockell   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

Ion Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium

(2008) Theodore P. Snow et al.   Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry

Superluminous Supernovae: No Threat from η Carinae

(2008) Brian C. Thomas et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Amphibian Nitrate Stress as an Additional Terrestrial Threat from Astrophysical Ionizing Radiation Events?

(2008) Brian C. Thomas et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Supernova Collisions with the Heliosphere

(2008) Brian D. Fields et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

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

FIRST DETECTION OF GLYCOLALDEHYDE OUTSIDE THE GALACTIC CENTER

(2008) M. T. Beltrán et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

On the protection of extrasolar Earth-like planets around K/M stars against galactic cosmic rays

(2008) J.-M. Grießmeier et al.   ICARUS

Influence of energetic particles on atmospheric ionization

(2008) G.I. Vasilyev et al.   JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS

Atmospheric consequences of cosmic-ray variability in the extragalactic shock model

(2008) Adrian L. Melott et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

An asymmetric solar wind termination shock

(2008) Edward C. Stone et al.   NATURE

Vertical distribution and characterization of aerobic phototrophic bacteria at the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean

(2008) Christopher Rathgeber et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Review of Particle Physics

(2008) C. Amsler et al.   PHYSICS LETTERS B

Solar System Ionospheres

(2008) O. Witasse et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Cosmic Ray Induced Ion Production in the Atmosphere

(2008) G. A. Bazilevskaya et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Is evolvability evolvable?

(2007) Massimo Pigliucci   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Cosmic radiation in commercial aviation

(2007) Michael Bagshaw   Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease