Life on Venus and the interplanetary transfer of biota from Earth

Limits of Life and the Habitability of Mars: The ESA Space Experiment BIOMEX on the ISS

(2019) Jean-Pierre de Vera et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Cosmic dust fluxes in the atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and Venus

(2019) Juan Diego Carrillo-Sánchez et al.   ICARUS

Venus' Spectral Signatures and the Potential for Life in the Clouds

(2018) Sanjay S. Limaye et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Radiation pressure in galactic discs: stability, turbulence, and winds in the single-scattering limit

(2018) Benjamin D Wibking et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Survival, DNA, and Ultrastructural Integrity of a Cryptoendolithic Antarctic Fungus in Mars and Lunar Rock Analogues Exposed Outside the International Space Station

(2018) Silvano Onofri et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Comets, Enceladus and panspermia

(2018) N. C. Wickramasinghe et al.   ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE

Bacterial survival following shock compression in the GigaPascal range

(2017) Rachael Hazael et al.   ICARUS

On the iron chloride aerosol in the clouds of Venus

(2017) Vladimir A. Krasnopolsky   ICARUS

Biotoxicity of Mars soils: 2. Survival of Bacillus subtilis and Enterococcus faecalis in aqueous extracts derived from six Mars analog soils

(2017) Andrew C. Schuerger et al.   ICARUS

Aerobic and anaerobic fungal metabolism and Omics insights for increasing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons biodegradation

(2017) Sevcan Aydin et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

The Case for Extant Life on Mars and Its Possible Detection by the Viking Labeled Release Experiment

(2016) Gilbert V. Levin et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Was Venus the first habitable world of our solar system?

(2016) M. J. Way et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Structural parallels between terrestrial microbialites and Martian sediments: are all cases of ‘Pareidolia’?

(2016) Vincenzo Rizzo et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

BIOMEX Experiment: Ultrastructural Alterations, Molecular Damage and Survival of the Fungus Cryomyces antarcticus after the Experiment Verification Tests

(2016) Claudia Pacelli et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

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

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

Ancient Sedimentary Structures in the

(2015) Nora Noffke   ASTROBIOLOGY

Metagenomic analysis of a high carbon dioxide subsurface microbial community populated by chemolithoautotrophs and bacteria and archaea from candidate phyla

(2015) Joanne B. Emerson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

AGN feedback: galactic-scale outflows driven by radiation pressure on dust

(2015) W. Ishibashi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Preliminary study of Venus cloud layers with polarimetric data from SPICAV/VEx

(2015) Loïc Rossi et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Relative Abundance of and Composition within Fungal Orders Differ between Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)-Associated Soils

(2015) Carolyn F. Weber et al.   PLoS One

A Genetic Inventory of Spacecraft and Associated Surfaces

(2014) Myron T. La Duc et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Rock black fungi: excellence in the extremes, from the Antarctic to space

(2014) Laura Selbmann et al.   CURRENT GENETICS

Glory on Venus cloud tops and the unknown UV absorber

(2014) W.J. Markiewicz et al.   ICARUS

Protein patterns of black fungi under simulated Mars-like conditions

(2014) Kristina Zakharova et al.   Scientific Reports

An object of assumed Venusian flora

(2013) L. V. Ksanfomality   DOKLADY PHYSICS

Dryland soil microbial communities display spatial biogeographic patterns associated with soil depth and soil parent material

(2013) Blaire Steven et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Bimodal distribution of sulfuric acid aerosols in the upper haze of Venus

(2013) Peter Gao et al.   ICARUS

Results on the survival of cryptobiotic cyanobacteria samples after exposure to Mars-like environmental conditions

(2013) J. -P. de Vera et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

The Possible Interplanetary Transfer of Microbes: Assessing the Viability of Deinococcus spp. Under the ISS Environmental Conditions for Performing Exposure Experiments of Microbes in the Tanpopo Mission

(2013) Yuko Kawaguchi et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

A Low Temperature Limit for Life on Earth

(2013) Andrew Clarke et al.   PLoS One

Microbiome of the upper troposphere: Species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications

(2013) N. DeLeon-Rodriguez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Imaging of a Circumsolar Dust Ring Near the Orbit of Venus

(2013) M. H. Jones et al.   SCIENCE

The airspace is habitat

(2013) Robert H. Diehl   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Survival of Rock-Colonizing Organisms After 1.5 Years in Outer Space

(2012) Silvano Onofri et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Unifying concepts in anaerobic respiration: Insights from dissimilatory sulfur metabolism

(2012) Fabian Grein et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Responses of sub-arctic dwarf shrubs to low oxygen and high carbon dioxide conditions

(2012) Catherine Preece et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The resistance of the lichen Circinaria gyrosa (nom. provis.) towards simulated Mars conditions—a model test for the survival capacity of an eukaryotic extremophile

(2012) F.J. Sánchez et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

(2012) N. Fierer 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

Evidence for methane production by saprotrophic fungi

(2012) Katharina Lenhart et al.   Nature Communications

Atmosphere: A Source of Pathogenic or Beneficial Microbes?

(2012) Paraskevi N. Polymenakou   Atmosphere

Dissimilatory Reduction of Extracellular Electron Acceptors in Anaerobic Respiration

(2011) Katrin Richter et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Whole Lichen Thalli Survive Exposure to Space Conditions: Results of Lithopanspermia Experiment with Aspicilia fruticulosa

(2011) J. Raggio et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

RADIATION PRESSURE FROM MASSIVE STAR CLUSTERS AS A LAUNCHING MECHANISM FOR SUPER-GALACTIC WINDS

(2011) Norman Murray et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Models of the global cloud structure on Venus derived from Venus Express observations

(2011) J.K. Barstow et al.   ICARUS

Microbe-I: fungal biota analyses of the Japanese experimental module KIBO of the International Space Station before launch and after being in orbit for about 460 days

(2011) Kazuo Satoh et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

Biogeography and Biodiversity in Sulfide Structures of Active and Inactive Vents at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Fields of the Southern Mariana Trough

(2010) S. Kato et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Asian Monsoon Transport of Pollution to the Stratosphere

(2010) W. J. Randel et al.   SCIENCE

Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans metabolism: from genome sequence to industrial applications

(2009) Jorge Valdés et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Possible organosedimentary structures on Mars

(2009) Vincenzo Rizzo et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Methanolobus zinderi sp. nov., a methylotrophic methanogen isolated from a deep subsurface coal seam

(2009) S. N. Doerfert et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

High diversity of fungi in air particulate matter

(2009) J. Frohlich-Nowoisky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The physical state of water in bacterial spores

(2009) E. P. Sunde et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial Rock Inhabitants Survive Hypervelocity Impacts on Mars-Like Host Planets: First Phase of Lithopanspermia Experimentally Tested

(2008) Gerda Horneck et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Potential for atmospheric deposition of bacteria to influence bacterioplankton communities

(2008) Stuart E. Jones et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Fungi and ionizing radiation from radionuclides

(2008) John Dighton et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Uplift of microorganisms by electric fields above thunderstorms

(2008) Thomas Dehel et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTROSTATICS

Distant future of the Sun and Earth revisited

(2008) K.-P. Schröder et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Towards environmental systems biology of Shewanella

(2008) James K. Fredrickson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

On the coevolution of Ediacaran oceans and animals

(2008) Y. Shen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metagenomic signatures of the Peru Margin subseafloor biosphere show a genetically distinct environment

(2008) J. F. Biddle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mold species in dust from the International Space Station identified and quantified by mold-specific quantitative PCR

(2008) Stephen J. Vesper et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Deep Drilling into the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure

(2008) G. S. Gohn et al.   SCIENCE

Environmental Genomics Reveals a Single-Species Ecosystem Deep Within Earth

(2008) D. Chivian et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial and “de novo” transformation of dicarboxylic acids by three airborne fungi

(2007) Valerié Côté et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT