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The first appearance of controlled eukaryotic biomineralization in the neoproterozoic fossil record
The observed exoskeletal shells were made out of calcium phosphate, and Cohen's team dated the fossils back to around 809 million years ago. This is the oldest evidence of biomineralization among eukarya..

11/11/2016
Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China
The new fossils provide the strongest evidence yet that multicellular eukaryotes with decimetric dimensions and a regular developmental program populated the marine biosphere at least a billion years before the Cambrian Explosion..

28/5/2016
NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars
Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet. These darkish streaks appear to ebb and flow over time..

06/10/2015
HKU Dean of Science Professor Sun Kwok Elected as President of International Astronomical Union (IAU) Commission on Astrobiology
He will help the Union to organize world-wide research and education activities in astrobiology. .

04/09/2015
SETI reborn: The New Search for Intelligent Life
This century is increasingly one of optical SETI — small telescopes and carefully calibrated photometers looking for pulses of laser light that may last mere fractions of a second. .

10/09/2015
Oxygen oasis in Antarctic lake reflects Earth in the distant past
Lake Fryxell, Antarctica is permanently covered in ice, and the waters at the bottom are oxygen-free but still receive some sunlight. Scientists have discovered a thin layer of oxygen created by photosynthetic bacteria at the bottom of the lake. This could be a model for conditions on Earth 2.4 billion years ago, before oxygen became common in the atmosphere.

04/09/2015
The 4th ELSI International Symposium
Conference concerning Origins coming up in Asia (Tokyo, January 2016)....

25/08/2015
ASB 6
The Origin, Distribution & Detection of Life in the Universe Conference (London, September 2015)....

18/08/2015
Ethers may replace DNA in worlds such as Titan
Can alternative liquids can also suffice as life-enablers?

19/05/2015
NAI Director's Seminar Series
Live and online web broadcast discussing: The Role of Chance in the Evolution of Early Life on May 18th....

16/05/2015
Missing link found
New type of life could be the missing link between unicellular and multicellular life....

12/05/2015
Astrobiology Science Conference 2015 (AbSciCon2015), June 15-19, 2015
AbSciCon2015 is the next in a series of conferences organized by the astrobiology community....

29/04/2015
The XIth Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics in Hong Kong, December 14-17, 2015
In this conference, we will address the many unsolved mysteries in the late stages of stellar evolution. These issues have bearings on our understanding of stellar evolution, chemical synthesis, astrochemistry, and may be even the origin of life....

22/04/2015
NASA awards CU-Boulder-led team $7 million to study origins, evolution of life in universe

NASA has awarded a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder more than $7 million to study aspects of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. ...

12/10/2014
Public Outreach in October: Astrobiology Soap Box Series at the MIT Museum
MIT is very pleased to announce an interactive public discussion series at the MIT Museum every Tuesday evening this October ...

06/10/2014
India's First Mars Probe Makes Historic Red Planet Arrival
India has joined the Mars club. India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) probe was captured by the Red Planet's ...

04/10/2014
The 2014 Humans in Space Art Video Challenge is Now Open
Join NASA's International Space Station Program and Humans in Space Art in a journey of exploration. Interested college students and early career professionals worldwide are invited ...

03/10/2014
Astrobiology Workshop 2015 'Building Habitable Worlds'
25th February hosted by the University of Glasgow Venue: Glasgow Science Centre ...

03/10/2014
Upcoming conferences

EANA 2014 Edinburgh, 13–16 October 2014 ...

01/10/2014
The four more likely places to host alien life in the Solar System

The Galileo mission to Jupiter discovered Europa's global subsurface ocean of liquid water and indications of Ganymede's interior seas. At Saturn, the Cassini probe detected ...

01/10/2014

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