Living at the Extremes: Extremophiles and the Limits of Life in a Planetary Context

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life

(2018) Edward W. Schwieterman et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Survival of microbes in Earth's stratosphere

(2018) Priya DasSarma et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Geochemistry of fluids from Earth’s deepest ridge-crest hot-springs: Piccard hydrothermal field, Mid-Cayman Rise

(2018) Jill M. McDermott et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Ultralow Surface Temperatures in East Antarctica From Satellite Thermal Infrared Mapping: The Coldest Places on Earth

(2018) T. A. Scambos et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The surface composition of Ceres from the Dawn mission

(2018) Thomas B. McCord et al.   ICARUS

Life on the edge: active microbial communities in the Kryos MgCl2-brine basin at very low water activity

(2018) Lea Steinle et al.   ISME Journal

Ceres’s internal evolution: The view after Dawn

(2018) T. B. McCord et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Biological methane production under putative Enceladus-like conditions

(2018) Ruth-Sophie Taubner et al.   Nature Communications

Microbial habitability of Europa sustained by radioactive sources

(2018) Thiago Altair et al.   Scientific Reports

Low Energy Subsurface Environments as Extraterrestrial Analogs

(2018) Rose M. Jones et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Preservation of potential biosignatures in the shallow subsurface of Europa

(2018) T. A. Nordheim et al.   Nature Astronomy

Radiolytic H2 Production in Martian Environments

(2018) Mary Dzaugis et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Insights into Ceres's evolution from surface composition

(2018) Julie Castillo-Rogez et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus

(2018) Frank Postberg et al.   NATURE

The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface

(2018) C. Magnabosco et al.   Nature Geoscience

Transcriptomic responses of Serratia liquefaciens cells grown under simulated Martian conditions of low temperature, low pressure, and CO2-enriched anoxic atmosphere

(2018) Patricia Fajardo-Cavazos et al.   Scientific Reports

Phylogenetically Novel Uncultured Microbial Cells Dominate Earth Microbiomes

(2018) Karen G. Lloyd et al.   mSystems

Environmental Data and Survival Data of Deinococcus aetherius from the Exposure Facility of the Japan Experimental Module of the International Space Station Obtained by the Tanpopo Mission

(2018) Akihiko Yamagishi et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The influence of meridional ice transport on Europa's ocean stratification and heat content

(2017) Peiyun Zhu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Plume and surface feature structure and compositional effects on Europa's global exosphere: Preliminary Europa mission predictions

(2017) B.D. Teolis et al.   ICARUS

Aqueous origins of bright salt deposits on Ceres

(2017) Mikhail Yu. Zolotov   ICARUS

Sea ice, extremophiles and life on extra-terrestrial ocean worlds

(2017) Andrew Martin et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Geobiological feedbacks and the evolution of thermoacidophiles

(2017) Daniel R Colman et al.   ISME Journal

Metal availability and the expanding network of microbial metabolisms in the Archaean eon

(2017) Eli K. Moore et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

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

Granular flows at recurring slope lineae on Mars indicate a limited role for liquid water

(2017) Colin M. Dundas et al.   Nature Geoscience

Characterizations of geothermal springs along the Moxi deep fault in the western Sichuan plateau, China

(2017) Jihong Qi et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Survivability and growth kinetics of methanogenic archaea at various pHs and pressures: Implications for deep subsurface life on Mars

(2017) Navita Sinha et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Preferential formation of sodium salts from frozen sodium-ammonium-chloride-carbonate brines – Implications for Ceres’ bright spots

(2017) Tuan H. Vu et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Subduction zone forearc serpentinites as incubators for deep microbial life

(2017) Oliver Plümper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of Physiochemical Factors on Prokaryotic Biodiversity in Malaysian Circumneutral Hot Springs

(2017) Chia S. Chan et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Adaptability of Life on Earth and the Diversity of Planetary Habitats

(2017) Dirk Schulze-Makuch et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Sulfolobus – A Potential Key Organism in Future Biotechnology

(2017) Julian Quehenberger et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Diversity in a Hypersaline Sulfate Lake: A Terrestrial Analog of Ancient Mars

(2017) Alexandra Pontefract et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The distribution of volcanism in the Beta-Atla-Themis region of Venus: Its relationship to rifting and implications for global tectonic regimes

(2017) M. W. Airey et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Earthquake rupture below the brittle-ductile transition in continental lithospheric mantle

(2017) Germán A. Prieto et al.   Science Advances

Bubble streams in Titan’s seas as a product of liquid N2 + CH4 + C2H6 cryogenic mixture

(2017) Daniel Cordier et al.   Nature Astronomy

Detection of Perchlorate and the Soluble Chemistry of Martian Soil at the Phoenix Lander Site

(2017) M. H. Hecht et al.   SCIENCE

The Climate of Titan

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

The Climate of Early Mars

(2016) Robin D. Wordsworth   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The Role of Microbial Electron Transfer in the Coevolution of the Biosphere and Geosphere

(2016) Benjamin I. Jelen et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

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

(2016) Giada Arney et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Twenty Species of Hypobarophilic Bacteria Recovered from Diverse Soils Exhibit Growth under Simulated Martian Conditions at 0.7 kPa

(2016) Andrew C. Schuerger et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Case for a Gaian Bottleneck: The Biology of Habitability

(2016) Aditya Chopra et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Ceres: Sulfur deposits and graphitized carbon

(2016) Amanda R. Hendrix et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Water-rich planets: How habitable is a water layer deeper than on Earth?

(2016) L. Noack et al.   ICARUS

Abiotic methane formation during experimental serpentinization of olivine

(2016) Thomas M. McCollom   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thermococcus piezophilus sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic and piezophilic archaeon with a broad pressure range for growth, isolated from a deepest hydrothermal vent at the Mid-Cayman Rise

(2016) Cécile Dalmasso et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Buried Alive: Microbes from Ancient Halite

(2016) Salla T. Jaakkola et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Ratiometric fluorescent pH-sensitive polymers for high-throughput monitoring of extracellular pH

(2016) Liqiang Zhang et al.   RSC Advances

Salinity shapes microbial diversity and community structure in surface sediments of the Qinghai-Tibetan Lakes

(2016) Jian Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

Influence of Growth Phase, pH, and Temperature on the Abundance and Composition of Tetraether Lipids in the Thermoacidophile Picrophilus torridus

(2016) Jayme Feyhl-Buska et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Stable and Variable Parts of Microbial Community in Siberian Deep Subsurface Thermal Aquifer System Revealed in a Long-Term Monitoring Study

(2016) Yulia A. Frank et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Radiolytic Hydrogen Production in the Subseafloor Basaltic Aquifer

(2016) Mary E. Dzaugis et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A new view of the tree of life

(2016) Laura A. Hug et al.   Nature Microbiology

Polymerization of Building Blocks of Life on Europa and Other Icy Moons

(2015) Jun Kimura et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Serpentinization and the Formation of H2 and CH4 on Celestial Bodies (Planets, Moons, Comets)

(2015) N.G. Holm et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Spectroscopy and Viability of Bacillus subtilis Spores after Ultraviolet Irradiation: Implications for the Detection of Potential Bacterial Life on Europa

(2015) Aaron C. Noell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Principles of Geobiochemistry

(2015) Everett L. Shock et al.   Elements

Microbial community of the deep-sea brine LakeKryosseawater-brine interface is active below the chaotropicity limit of life as revealed by recovery of mRNA

(2015) Michail M. Yakimov et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A snapshot of microbial communities from the Kutch: one of the largest salt deserts in the World

(2015) Aanal S. Pandit et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Microbial diversity and adaptation to high hydrostatic pressure in deep-sea hydrothermal vents prokaryotes

(2015) Mohamed Jebbar et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

The pH of Enceladus’ ocean

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

Geochemistry, thermal evolution, and cryovolcanism on Ceres with a muddy ice mantle

(2015) Marc Neveu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Europa's surface color suggests an ocean rich with sodium chloride

(2015) K. P. Hand et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Bacterial diversity and community composition from seasurface to subseafloor

(2015) Emily A Walsh et al.   ISME Journal

Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus

(2015) Hsiang-Wen Hsu et al.   NATURE

Spectral evidence for hydrated salts in recurring slope lineae on Mars

(2015) Lujendra Ojha et al.   Nature Geoscience

The impact of temperature on microbial diversity and AOA activity in the Tengchong Geothermal Field, China

(2015) Haizhou Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Power limits for microbial life

(2015) Douglas E. LaRowe et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbiome composition and geochemical characteristics of deep subsurface high-pressure environment, Pyhäsalmi mine Finland

(2015) Hanna Miettinen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial diversity and metabolic networks in acid mine drainage habitats

(2015) Celia Méndez-García et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Thermal stability of ice on Ceres with rough topography

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

The Drive to Life on Wet and Icy Worlds

(2014) Michael J. Russell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Pressure adaptation is linked to thermal adaptation in salt-saturated marine habitats

(2014) María Alcaide et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The bathymetry of a Titan sea

(2014) Marco Mastrogiuseppe et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Shape, topography, gravity anomalies and tidal deformation of Titan

(2014) Giuseppe Mitri et al.   ICARUS

Titan’s internal structure inferred from its gravity field, shape, and rotation state

(2014) Rose-Marie Baland et al.   ICARUS

Is there a common water-activity limit for the three domains of life?

(2014) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ISME Journal

Humboldt’s spa: microbial diversity is controlled by temperature in geothermal environments

(2014) Christine E Sharp et al.   ISME Journal

Soil pH Determines Microbial Diversity and Composition in the Park Grass Experiment

(2014) Kateryna Zhalnina et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Localized sources of water vapour on the dwarf planet (1) Ceres

(2014) Michael Küppers et al.   NATURE

Evidence for subduction in the ice shell of Europa

(2014) Simon A. Kattenhorn et al.   Nature Geoscience

Requirements and limits for life in the context of exoplanets

(2014) C. P. McKay   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Physiological and genomic features of highly alkaliphilic hydrogen-utilizing Betaproteobacteria from a continental serpentinizing site

(2014) Shino Suzuki et al.   Nature Communications

Evolution of extreme resistance to ionizing radiation via genetic adaptation of DNA repair

(2014) Rose T Byrne et al.   eLife

Structural and tidal models of Titan and inferences on cryovolcanism

(2014) F. Sohl et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

There are more small amino acids and fewer aromatic rings in proteins of ionizing radiation-resistant bacteria

(2013) Haïtham Sghaier et al.   ANNALS OF MICROBIOLOGY

pH and Salinity Evolution of Europa's Brines: Raman Spectroscopy Study of Fractional Precipitation at 1 and 300 Bar

(2013) Victoria Muñoz-Iglesias et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Pressure as an environmental parameter for microbial life — A review

(2013) Aude Picard et al.   BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Climate and soil salinity in the deserts of Central Asia

(2013) E. I. Pankova et al.   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE

UV and cold tolerance of a pigment-producing Antarctic Janthinobacterium sp. Ant5-2

(2013) Nazia Mojib et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Actinopolyspora mzabensis sp. nov., a halophilic actinomycete isolated from an Algerian Saharan soil

(2013) A. Meklat et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial growth at −15 °C; molecular insights from the permafrost bacterium Planococcus halocryophilus Or1

(2013) Nadia C S Mykytczuk et al.   ISME Journal

Ocean-driven heating of Europa’s icy shell at low latitudes

(2013) K. M. Soderlund et al.   Nature Geoscience

Groundwater activity on Mars and implications for a deep biosphere

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

Microbial life under extreme energy limitation

(2013) Tori M. Hoehler et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A Low Temperature Limit for Life on Earth

(2013) Andrew Clarke et al.   PLoS One

Microbial diversity in The Cedars, an ultrabasic, ultrareducing, and low salinity serpentinizing ecosystem

(2013) S. Suzuki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life

(2013) M. O. Schrenk et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Mars' Surface Radiation Environment Measured with the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity Rover

(2013) D. M. Hassler et al.   SCIENCE

Exoplanet Habitability

(2013) S. Seager   SCIENCE

The limits for life under multiple extremes

(2013) Jesse P. Harrison et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Biology of Extreme Radiation Resistance: The Way of Deinococcus radiodurans

(2013) A. Krisko et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Don Juan Pond, Antarctica: Near-surface CaCl2-brine feeding Earth's most saline lake and implications for Mars

(2013) James L. Dickson et al.   Scientific Reports

Diversity and phylogenetic analyses of bacteria from a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in Milos island (Greece)

(2013) Donato Giovannelli et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Quantifying the impact of mechanical layering and underthrusting on the dynamics of the modern India-Asia collisional system with 3-D numerical models

(2013) S. M. Lechmann et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Acidification of Europa's Subsurface Ocean as a Consequence of Oxidant Delivery

(2012) Matthew A. Pasek et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics

(2012) Nick Lane et al.   CELL

Geographic distance and pH drive bacterial distribution in alkaline lake sediments across Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Jinbo Xiong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Inter-field variability in the microbial communities of hydrothermal vent deposits from a back-arc basin

(2012) G. E. FLORES et al.   Geobiology

A whole-moon thermal history model of Europa: Impact of hydrothermal circulation and salt transport

(2012) B.J. Travis et al.   ICARUS

Sediment microbial communities in Great Boiling Spring are controlled by temperature and distinct from water communities

(2012) Jessica K Cole et al.   ISME Journal

Contemporary environmental variation determines microbial diversity patterns in acid mine drainage

(2012) Jia-Liang Kuang et al.   ISME Journal

Diversification of Bacterial Community Composition along a Temperature Gradient at a Thermal Spring

(2012) R. Craig Everroad et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Supporting Mars exploration: BIOMEX in Low Earth Orbit and further astrobiological studies on the Moon using Raman and PanCam technology

(2012) Jean-Pierre de Vera et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Magnetospheric ion sputtering and water ice grain size at Europa

(2012) T.A. Cassidy et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Global distribution of microbial abundance and biomass in subseafloor sediment

(2012) J. Kallmeyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Growth of Carnobacterium spp. from permafrost under low pressure, temperature, and anoxic atmosphere has implications for Earth microbes on Mars

(2012) W. L. Nicholson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An Extensive Phase Space for the Potential Martian Biosphere

(2011) Eriita G. Jones et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Is there life on … Titan?

(2011) Lucy H Norman   ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS

Satellite Finds Highest Land Skin Temperatures on Earth

(2011) David J. Mildrexler et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Formation of H2 and CH4 by weathering of olivine at temperatures between 30 and 70°C

(2011) Anna Neubeck et al.   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

The composition and structure of the Enceladus plume

(2011) C. J. Hansen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Pedobacter arcticus sp. nov., a facultative psychrophile isolated from Arctic soil, and emended descriptions of the genus Pedobacter, Pedobacter heparinus, Pedobacter daechungensis, Pedobacter terricola, Pedobacter glucosidilyticus and Pedobacter lentus

(2011) Z. Zhou et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Planococcus halocryophilus sp. nov., an extreme sub-zero species from high Arctic permafrost

(2011) N. C. S. Mykytczuk et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Influence of higher atmospheric pressure on the Martian radiation environment: Implications for possible habitability in the Noachian epoch

(2011) B. Ehresmann et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A Hump-Backed Trend in Bacterial Diversity with Elevation on Mount Fuji, Japan

(2011) Dharmesh Singh et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Molecular aspects of bacterial pH sensing and homeostasis

(2011) Terry A. Krulwich et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Seasonal Flows on Warm Martian Slopes

(2011) A. S. McEwen et al.   SCIENCE

Hot-spring Systems Geobiology: abiotic and biotic influences on travertine formation at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, USA

(2011) BRUCE W. FOUKE   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Rapid Acquisition of Gigapascal-High-Pressure Resistance by Escherichia coli

(2011) D. Vanlint et al.   mBio

A short overview of the microbial population in clouds: Potential roles in atmospheric chemistry and nucleation processes

(2010) Anne-Marie Delort et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   BIOESSAYS

Thermodynamic limits to microbial life at high salt concentrations

(2010) Aharon Oren   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Growth response of the bacterial community to pH in soils differing in pH

(2010) David Fernández-Calviño et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

Extended survival of several organisms and amino acids under simulated martian surface conditions

(2010) A.P. Johnson et al.   ICARUS

Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil

(2010) Johannes Rousk et al.   ISME Journal

Depth of the Martian cryosphere: Revised estimates and implications for the existence and detection of subpermafrost groundwater

(2010) Stephen M. Clifford et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Space Microbiology

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

Abiotic nitrous oxide emission from the hypersaline Don Juan Pond in Antarctica

(2010) Vladimir A. Samarkin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

(2010) Roberto Danovaro et al.   PLoS One

The many ways of coping with pressure

(2010) Philippe M. Oger et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Deep-sea piezosphere and piezophiles: geomicrobiology and biogeochemistry

(2010) Jiasong Fang et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Geochemistry of the Hyperalkaline Gorka Pit Lake (pH > 13) in the Chrzanow Region, Southern Poland

(2010) Mariusz Czop et al.   WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION

Ecophysiology of "Halarsenatibacter silvermanii" Strain SLAS-1T, gen. nov., sp. nov., a Facultative Chemoautotrophic Arsenate Respirer from Salt-Saturated Searles Lake, California

(2009) J. S. Blum et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Archaeal and Bacterial Communities Respond Differently to Environmental Gradients in Anoxic Sediments of a California Hypersaline Lake, the Salton Sea

(2009) B. K. Swan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bar-Coded Pyrosequencing Reveals Shared Bacterial Community Properties along the Temperature Gradients of Two Alkaline Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park

(2009) S. R. Miller et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale

(2009) C. L. Lauber et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Effects of Long-Term Simulated Martian Conditions on a Freeze-Dried and Homogenized Bacterial Permafrost Community

(2009) Aviaja A. Hansen et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Survivability of Psychrobacter cryohalolentis K5 Under Simulated Martian Surface Conditions

(2009) David J. Smith et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

What makes a planet habitable?

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

On the composition and differentiation of Ceres

(2009) Mikhail Yu. Zolotov   ICARUS

Physiological traits of Penicillium glabrum strain LCP 08.5568, a filamentous fungus isolated from bottled aromatised mineral water

(2009) L. Nevarez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

Stability against freezing of aqueous solutions on early Mars

(2009) Alberto G. Fairén et al.   NATURE

Sodium salts in E-ring ice grains from an ocean below the surface of Enceladus

(2009) F. Postberg et al.   NATURE

Liquid water on Enceladus from observations of ammonia and 40Ar in the plume

(2009) J. H. Waite Jr et al.   NATURE

Life at Extreme Limits

(2008) Noha M. Mesbah et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The chemical characteristics of acid mine drainage with particular reference to sources, distribution and remediation: The Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa as a case study

(2008) H. Tutu et al.   APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY

Hydrocarbons and oxidized organic compounds in hydrothermal fluids from Rainbow and Lost City ultramafic-hosted vents

(2008) C. Konn et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Geochemistry of volcanic and hydrothermal fluids and volatile budget of the Kamchatka–Kuril subduction zone

(2008) Yuri A. Taran   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Hydrothermal venting at pressure-temperature conditions above the critical point of seawater, 5°S on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

(2008) Andrea Koschinsky et al.   GEOLOGY

Paleointensity of the ancient Martian magnetic field

(2008) Benjamin P. Weiss et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The long-term stability of a possible aqueous ammonium sulfate ocean inside Titan

(2008) P GRINDROD et al.   ICARUS

Protein oxidation: key to bacterial desiccation resistance?

(2008) James K Fredrickson et al.   ISME Journal

Facilitation of endolithic microbial survival in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert by mineral deliquescence

(2008) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

Environmental Genomics Reveals a Single-Species Ecosystem Deep Within Earth

(2008) D. Chivian et al.   SCIENCE

Thermal convection in ice-I shells of Titan and Enceladus

(2007) Giuseppe Mitri et al.   ICARUS