Baked Meteorites Yield Clues to Planetary Atmospheres
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/04/meteorite-outgassing.html
Study Warns of ‘Oxygen false positives’ in Search for Signs of Life on Other Planets
Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable ‘biosignature,’ but there are ways to distinguish false positives from signs of life, scientists say
UCSC Astrobiology Initiative Brings Science, Humanities, and Art Together to Study the Ethics of Space Sciences
UC Santa Cruz’s Astrobiology Initiative is an interdisciplinary research collaborative dedicated to the study of the origin, evolution, and prevalence of life in the universe. By probing how life forms, identifying the markers life produces, and observing our local astronomical neighborhood, astrobiology brings a 21st-century approach to the puzzle of life: what processes give rise […]
UC Santa Cruz Leads Interdisciplinary Consortium for Astrobiology Research
With funding from NASA, the UCSC-led team will lay the foundation for detecting the signatures of life in the atmospheres of other planets
2021 – 2022 UC Santa Cruz Astrobiology Science Communication Graduate Fellow: Zack Savitsky
Astrobiology focuses on the search for life beyond Earth. A core mission of the UC Santa Cruz Astrobiology Initiative is to effectively communicate with the public the science and ethics of this field. To this end, the UC Santa Cruz Astrobiology Initiative sponsors a Science Communication Graduate Fellowship. Scholars will focus their capstone Science Notes project on […]
UCSC Faculty Kick Off the Astrobiology Initiative
Befitting of the summer solstice, UCSC faculty convened to kick off the Astrobiology Initiative on June 21, 2019. This historic meeting brought together an interdisciplinary team of 22 faculty members representing a variety of departments on campus including Astronomy & Astrophysics, Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology (METX), Ocean Sciences, […]