Астробиология (экзобиология) — научная дисциплина, изучающая происхождение и эволюцию жизни во Вселенной. Астробиология осуществляет поиск пригодной для жизни среды обитания как в Солнечной системе, так и за её пределами, проводит исследование химической (предбиологической) эволюции органического вещества, лабораторные и практические исследования происхождения и раннего развития жизни на Земле в космическом контексте, а также исследования потенциальных возможностей жизни в части приспособления к условиям в космосе.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. — 355 p. What are the implications for human society, and for our institutions of higher learning, of the discovery of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on and around Earth? This book explores this timely question from a multidisciplinary perspective. It considers scientific, philosophical, theological, and...
Norfolk: Caister Academic Press, 2020. — 251 p. — ISBN13 9781912530304. — ISBN10 1912530309. Astrobiology is a modern cross-disciplinary research field which studies the origin and development of life in the universe and includes the search for extinct and currently existing organisms outside our planet. As part of this on-going search, astrobiology successfully combines...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 379 p. Are we alone in the universe, or are there other life forms 'out there'? This is one of the most scientifically and philosophically important questions that humanity can ask. Now, in the early 2020s, we are tantalizingly close to an answer. As this book shows, the answer will almost certainly be that life forms are to be...
New York: Springer, 2016. - 441 p.
Have you ever wondered what could happen when we discover another communicating species outside the Earth? This book addresses this question in all its complexity. In addition to the physical barriers for communication, such as the enormous distances where a message can take centuries to reach its recipient, the book also examines the...
New York: Springer, 2010. — 226 p. Will it be possible to communicate with intelligent extraterrestrial life forms if we find them? How could we establish this communication, where would we begin? What does it mean to say that mathematics is a universal language? How could math be used to communicate with ETs? This book summarizes the work of SETI, the Search for...
Burlington: Apple Academic Press, 2020. — 402 p. The Chemical Evolution of Phosphorus: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Astrobiology is an exploration of "the phosphorus enigma." The volume attempts to answer the questions How did phosphorus atoms, which are produced inside the inner cores of a handful of huge stars, become concentrated in relatively high proportions in the...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2019. — 147 p. This book provides an introduction, from the astronomical point of view of the author, to the exciting search for extra-terrestrial life, and an overview of the current status of research into 'alien' life in the Solar System and beyond. It also explores the potential future human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Up-to-date with the latest...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 501 p. This highly interdisciplinary book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particle physicists have often explored how the observed laws and constants of nature lie within a narrow range that allows complexity and life to evolve and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. -248p.
This book is a selective and fascinating history of scientific speculation about intelligent extraterrestrial life. From Plutarch to Stephen Hawking, some of the most prominent western scientists have had quite detailed perceptions and misperceptions about alien civilizations: Johannes Kepler, fresh from transforming astronomy with...
Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. — 294 p.
Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or “alien” societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a shared belief in alien beings and UFO sightings and their effect on popular and expressive culture. Opening up a new frontier for anthropological study, the contributors to E.T....
Scrivener / Wiley, 2022. — 566 p. This book provides a thorough scientific review of how Mars might eventually be colonized, industrialized, and transformed into a world better suited to human habitation. The idea of terraforming Mars has, in recent times, become a topic of intense scientific interest and great public debate. Stimulated in part by the contemporary imperative to...
Scrivener / Wiley, 2022. — 566 p. This book provides a thorough scientific review of how Mars might eventually be colonized, industrialized, and transformed into a world better suited to human habitation. The idea of terraforming Mars has, in recent times, become a topic of intense scientific interest and great public debate. Stimulated in part by the contemporary imperative to...
Princeton University Press, 2008. - 238 p.
The quest for extraterrestrial life doesn't happen only in science fiction. This book describes the startling discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology, an intriguing new field that blends astronomy, biology, and geology to explore the possibility of life on other planets. Jeffrey Bennett takes readers beyond UFOs...
3-d ed - Addison-Wesley 2012. - 547 p. Textbook of Astrobiology. The quest to understand life on Earth and the prospects for life elsewhere in the universe touches on the most profound questions of human existence. It sheds light on our origins, teaches us to appreciate how and why our existence on Earth became possible, and inspires us to wonder about the incredible possibilities...
4th edition. — New York: Pearson, 2017. — 562 p. Life in the Universe provides an ideal starting point for non-science majors intrigued by the latest discoveries about life in the solar system and beyond. Rigorously researched and accessible to students of all backgrounds, the text introduces concepts drawn from astronomy, biology, and geology to explain natural phenomena and...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-511-65178-6 Where did we come from? Are we alone? Where are we going? These are the questions that define the field of astrobiology. New discoveries about life on Earth, the increasing numbers of extrasolar planets being identified, and the technologies being developed to locate and characterize Earth-like planets...
Mailand: Springer, 2012. — 148 p. For many thousands of years, human beings have been asking themselves whether they are more frightened of being alone in the universe or of the thought that there is someone else out there. Over the past few decades, however, we have moved from imagination to action, exploring the cosmos using new techniques, often with surprising results....
Springer, 2002. — 411 p. How did life originate in the universe? How did it all start after the creation of matter and the formation of elements in the stars? What are the pathways from the first organic molecules in space to the evolution of complex life forms on Earth and perhaps elsewhere? And how will it all end? The Universe itself sets the stage for the very...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 233 p. — ISBN 9780190864057. Универсальная жизнь: взгляд изнутри на гонку за открытием жизни за пределами Земли After decades of painstaking planning and preparation, NASA’s first dedicated exoplanet detection mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, was launched on March 6, 2009, from pad SLC-17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Kepler’s...
Science editor, William R. Alschuler ; associate editor, Howard Zimmerman. — London : Headline Book Pub., 1990. — 343 p. Some of the world’s leading astronomers have come together in this timely, mindstretching and highly readable book to confront the greatest scientific challenge for the 1990s: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. An intriguing combination of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 283 p. One day, astrobiologists could make the most fantastic discovery of all time: the detection of complex extraterrestrial life. As space agencies continue to search for life in our Universe, fundamental questions are raised: are we awake to the revolutionary effects on human science, society and culture that alien contact will...
Elsevier, 2018. — 379 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-809935-3. This book explores the current state of knowledge and questions on the past habitability of Mars and the role that rapid environmental changes may have played in the ability of prebiotic chemistry to transition to life. It investigates the role that such changes may have played in the preservation of biosignatures in the...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 83 p. Editors and Contributors Abbreviations List of Figures What Is Astrobiology? Organising EU Astrobiology Research The Contribution of Humanities and Social Sciences to EU Astrobiology European Astrobiology Research to Date American Experience Africa Asia Latin America The Public Understanding of Astrobiology Popularisation, Dissemination and...
Springer, 2025. — 165 p. The recent entry of private entrepreneurs into the world of space has multiplied the number of services provided by instruments in orbit, resulting into a rapid and tumultuous growth of the space economy. More services translate into more launches bringing into orbit more satellites. As a result, circum-terrestrial orbits are filling up alarmingly, and...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 144 p.
Astrobiology is an exciting new subject, and one, arguably, more interdisciplinary than any other. Astrobiologists seek to understand the origin and evolution of life on Earth in order to illuminate and guide the search for life on other planets. In this Very Short Introduction, David C. Catling introduces the subject through our...
Springer, 2019. — 362 p. This book aims at providing a brief but broad overview of biosignatures. The topics addressed range from prebiotic signatures in extraterrestrial materials to the signatures characterising extant life as well as fossilised life, biosignatures related to space, and space flight instrumentation to detect biosignatures either in situ or from orbit. The book...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2001. - 253p. Astrobiology is a very broad interdisciplinary field covering the origin, evolution, distribution, and destiny of life in the universe, as well as the design and implementation of missions for solar system exploration. A review covering its complete spectrum has been missing at a level accessible even to the non-specialist. The last section of...
New York: Springer, 2011. - 361 p. Since the publication of The New Science of Astrobiology in the year 2001—the first edition of the present book—two significant events have taken place raising the subject from the beginning of the century to its present maturity. Firstly, in 2001 the Galileo Mission still had two years to complete its task, which turned out to be an...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2000. — 342 p. Proceedings of the Iberoamerican School of Astrobiology Caracas, Venezuela, 28 November– 8 December, 1999 The general topic of this book concerns the origin, evolution, distribution, and destiny of life in the Universe. It discusses the transition from inert matter to cellular life and its evolution to fully developed intelligent beings, and...
Springer, 2019. — 215 p. This book describes how and why the early modern period witnessed the marginalisation of astrology in Western natural philosophy, and the re-adoption of the cosmological view of the existence of a plurality of worlds in the universe, allowing the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Founded in the mid-1990s, the discipline of astrobiology combines the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 286 p. Astrobiology is an expanding, interdisciplinary field investigating the origin, evolution and future of life in the universe. Tackling many of the foundational debates of the subject, from discussions of cosmological evolution to detailed reviews of common concepts such as the 'Rare Earth' hypothesis, this volume is the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 262 p. Integrating both scientific and philosophical perspectives, this book provides an informed analysis of the challenges of formulating a universal theory of life. Among the issues discussed are crucial differences between definitions and scientific theories and, in the context of examples from the history of science, how...
Berlin: Springer, 2006. — 387 p. The biological effects of asteroid and comet impacts have been widely viewed as primarily destructive. The role of an impactor in the K/T boundary extinctions has had a particularly important influence on thinking concerning the role of impacts in ecological and biological changes. th During the 10 and final workshop of the ESF IMPACT program...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. - 472p. Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field that asks profound scientific questions. How did life originate on the Earth? How has life persisted on the Earth for over three billion years? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe? What is the future of life on Earth? Astrobiology: Understanding Life in the Universe is an introductory text...
2nd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 632 p. — ISBN: 1119550351. A guide to understanding the formation of life in the Universe The revised and updated second edition of Astrobiology offers an introductory text that explores the structure of living things, the formation of the elements required for life in the Universe, the biological and geological history of the Earth, and...
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2002. - 369 p. "A fascinating and useful handbook to both the science and science fiction of extraterrestrial life. Cohen and Stewart are amusing, opinionated, and expert guides. I found it a terrific and informative piece of work-nothing else like it!" -Greg Bear "I loved it." -Larry Niven "Ever wonder about what aliens could be like? The...
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2019. — 336 p. — (Bloomsbury Sigma series). — ISBN: 978-1-4729-6042-9. In 1974 a message was beamed towards the stars by the giant Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a brief blast of radio waves designed to alert extraterrestrial civilisations to our existence. Of course, we don't know if such civilisations really exist. For the past six decades a...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 287 p. With current missions to Mars and the Earth-like moon Titan, and many more missions planned, humankind stands on the verge of exciting progress and possible major discoveries in our quest for life in space. What is life and where can it exist? What searches are being made to identify conditions for life on other worlds? If...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2015. - 204p. This book explains why scientists believe that life may be more common in the Universe than previously considered possible. It presents the tools and strategies astronomers and astrobiologists are using in their formal search for habitable exoplanets as well as more advanced forms of life in other parts of our galaxy. The author then summarizes...
Thrumpton: Nottingham University Press, 2011. — 248 p. This book tells the incredible story of the birth of a whole new field of science called Astrobiology. In the 1990's, powerful new ground - based telescopes plus space telescopes placed in orbits high above earth's atmosphere allowed astronomers to begin discovering that our sun is not the only star in our galaxy to have...
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. - 554p.
This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each source document, some of which are published here for the first time or in a new translation. The authors included are Aristotle, Lucretius, Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, Galileo,...
Basic Books, 2002. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-465-01563-8 To many people, the main question about extraterrestrial life is whether it exists. But to the scientific community, that question has already been answered: it does, and within our solar system. The new science of astrobiology is already being practiced at NASA's Astrobiology Institute and the University of Washington's new...
Penguin Book Ltd., London, New York, Ontario, 2011. – 204 p. – ISBN: 054742258X One of the world’s leading scientists explains why—and how—the search for intelligent life beyond Earth should be expanded. Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began...
Lexington Books, 2024. — 575 p. Astrophilosopy, Exotheology, and Cosmic Religion: Extraterrestrial Life in a Process Universe applies Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy and the associated process philosophies of Henri Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, and others to the interdisciplinary layers of astrobiology, extraterrestrial life, and the impact of discovery. This...
New York: Springer, 2020. — 69 p. This volume on astrobiology of the Springer Briefs in Life Sciences book series addresses the three fundamental questions on origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe: how does life begin and evolve? Is there life beyond Earth and, if so, how can we detect it? What is the future of life on Earth and in the universe? The...
Springer, 2013. — 419 p. Is Earth the right model and therefore our Earth-centric view the only universal key to understand habitability, the origin and maintenance of life? This book tries to give answers on this question. It gives insights into the nature of planets and their potential to harbor life as well as the role of life itself as an engine to increase the habitability of...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 288 p. The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity, imagination and future-oriented thought. However, even the most authoritarian Muslim-majority countries have produced highly imaginative accounts on one of the frontiers of knowledge: astrobiology, or...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 397 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-42676-3. The search for life in the universe, once the stuff of science fiction, is now a robust worldwide research program with a well-defined roadmap probing both scientific and societal issues. This volume examines the humanistic aspects of astrobiology, systematically discussing the approaches, critical issues,...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. — 128 p. This is a fascinating history of the debate over the question of extraterrestrial life from Classical Greece to the mid-eighteenth century. Using many primary and secondary sources, this book analyses why such great thinkers as Aristotle, Aquinas, Ockham, Galileo, Kepler, Huygens, and Kant thought the debate over the plurality...
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. — 167 p. The Living Universe is a comprehensive, historically nuanced study of the formation of the new scientific discipline of exobiology and its transformation into astrobiology. The authors explain how research on the origin of life became wedded to the search for life on other planets and for extraterrestrial intelligence....
Springer, 2021. — 221 p. — (Research for Development). — ISBN: 978-3-030-60941-2. Системы для Жизни в Космосе This book is a rich source of information on design research and solutions for the support and development of space missions. International experiences and researches are presented in order to cast light on the role of space design in improving living and working...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-88919-3
The McMurdo Dry Valleys form the largest relatively ice-free area on the Antarctic continent. The perennially ice-covered lakes, ephemeral streams and extensive areas of exposed soil are subject to low temperatures, limited precipitation and salt accumulation. The dry valleys thus represent a region where life...
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. - 287 p. Human beings have wondered about the stars since the dawn of the species. Does life exist out there - intelligent life, even - or are we alone? The quest for life in the universe touches on fundamental hopes and fears. It touches on the essence of what it means to formulate a theory, grasp a concept, and have an imagination....
Springer, 2004. — 518 p. — ISBN: 1-4020-2305-7 Astrobiology, a new exciting interdisciplinary research field, seeks to unravel the origin and evolution of life wherever it might exist in the Universe. The current view of the origin of life on Earth is that it is strongly connected to the origin and evolution of our planet and, indeed, of the Universe as a whole. We are...
EDP Sciences, 2021. — 164 p. The Earth is the only planet in the Solar System where liquid water is present on the surface, a condition that seems necessary for the development of life. Its sisters Venus and Mars are extremely different. Why did these three planets, born under fairly comparable conditions, evolve to the conditions we observe today? Understanding the physical or...
Philosophical Library, 1975. — 184 p. The author attempts to mathematically define LIFE and to incorporate the concept of organic evolution into the mainstream of alogical framework of physical theory. The book is an expansion of three scientific papers presented between 1966-1968 at the Space Congresses held near the Kennedy Space Center, as well as numerous lectures sponsored...
Chelsea House Publications, 2006. — 66 p. — ISBN: 0-7910-8971-1
Серия: Weird Careers in Science
Astrobiology is the study of life in the universe. It includes the fields of astronomy, physics, biology, geology, paleontology, and many others, such as microbiology. The curiosity of scientists who wonder if life exists somewhere besides Earth has created this new science. Since...
New York: Springer. – 2007. – 306 p. This book has arisen from a unique workshop, entitled Geology and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets, held at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, on 5–9 September 2005. The goal of this workshop, as articulated by the conveners, was to define the influence of planetary geologic evolution on habitability and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 413 p. The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) has for sixty years attempted to solve Fermi's paradox: if intelligent life is relatively common in the universe, where is everybody? Examining SETI through this lens, this volume summarises current thinking on the prevalence of intelligent life in the Universe and...
Harper, 2023. — 240 p. From astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in our search for extraterrestrial life, questions we stand ready to answer. Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam Frank has consistently been asked about the possibility of...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 264 p.— ISBN: 978–0–19–920580–6 The study of life in our universe has been given the name 'astrobiology'. It is a relatively new subject, but not a new discipline since it brings together several mature fields of science including astronomy, geology, biology, and climatology. An understanding of the singular conditions that allowed the only...
Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. — 221 p. Notes on Contributors Outer Space and Humanity: History, Concepts, and Themes of a New Philosophical Frontier A Memorial with No Observers: Carl Sagan’s Golden Record Earth and the Ontology of Planets Signs of Life: The Epistemology of Indirect Sensing Alien Ways of Knowing and Being: Speculations from the Lives of Earthly...
3rd edition. — Berlin: Springer, 2023. — 3376 p. — ISBN 3662650924. Now in its third edition the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology serves as the key to a common understanding in the extremely interdisciplinary community of astrobiologists. Each new or experienced researcher and graduate student in adjacent fields of astrobiology will appreciate this reference work in the quest to...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 526 p. Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this highly interdisciplinary book brings together a broad array of scientists. Thirty chapters assembled in eight major sections convey the knowledge accumulated and the richness of the debates generated by this challenging theme. The text explores...
Springer, 2012. - 302 p. - How did the Sun come into existence? How was the Earth formed? How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents? How do you define life? How did the first life forms emerge? What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve? All these questions are answered in this colourful textbook addressing...
Springer, 2005. — 779 p. — (Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics). — ISBN: 978-3-540-29005-6. "Lectures in Astrobiology" is the first comprehensive textbook at graduate level encompassing all aspects of the emerging field of astrobiology. Volume I of the Lectures in Astrobiology gathers a first set of extensive lectures that cover a broad range of topics, from the...
Springer; Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed., 2007. — 669 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-33693-8 Series: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics Based on material delivered at several summer schools, this book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging field of astrobiology. Volume II gathers another set of...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. — 267 p. “How do alien, faraway worlds reveal their existence to Earthlings? Let Donald Goldsmith count the ways. As an experienced astronomer and a gifted storyteller, he is the perfect person to chronicle the ongoing hunt for planets of other stars.” ―Dava Sobel Astronomers have recently discovered thousands of planets that orbit...
Academic Press, 2018. — 559 p. — (Astrobiology Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond). — ISBN: 978-0-12-811940-2. This book examines the times and places—before life existed on Earth—that might have provided suitable environments for life to occur, addressing the question: Is life on Earth de novo, or derived from previous life? The universe changed considerably during the vast...
The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008. – 162 p. – ISBN: 0854041567. This book provides an interdisciplinary review of one of the great unsolved mysteries that has fascinated scientists for over 150 years: the origin of chirality in biomolecules. It was Pasteur who first initiated the search for a deterministic theory to explain the 'handedness' of biomolecules. His theory, that...
Beverly: Wiley-Scrivener, 2023. — 504 p. The number of publications on the origin of life has been doubling every decade from 1970 until today and now exceeds 70,000, illustrating the ever-growing interest of the scientific community and the public in this area. With our explosion of knowledge about the niches of extremophiles, discoveries of the vast numbers and varieties of...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. — 303 p. Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may actually lie...
London: The Overlook Press, 2017. - 702 p. An “invaluable, encyclopedic achievement” (Times Literary Supplement best books of 2015), Cosmosapiens looks at how human life emerged and evolved in the universe, incorporating the ideas of experts from a wide range of intellectual disciplines. Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they...
New York: Springer, 2012. - 518p.
A trio of editors [Professors from Austria, Germany and Israel] present Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies. The contributors are from twenty various countries and present their research on life here as well as the possibility for extraterrestrial life. This volume covers concepts such as life's origin, hypothesis of Panspermia and of life...
Springer, 2009. — 248 p. — ISBN10: 3540769447; ISBN13: 978-3540769446. The search for life in the universe is one of the most challenging topics of science. It is not a modern topic at all, since more than 100 years ago, it was speculated that on the Moon, there are oceans and seas; on Venus, there are swamps and also Mars is inhabitated. However, now we have the scienti?c...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 671 p. Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if life forms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their languages have evolved? Could we ever understand them, and indeed learn to communicate with them? This highly original, thought-provoking book takes us on a fascinating journey over billions of...
IOS Press, 2005. — 240 р. — ISBN: 1-58603-512-6 Книга из серии: NATO Science Series: Life and Behavioural Sciences, Vol. 366 Astrobiology is the multi-disciplinary field devoted to the investigation of the origin; physical, chemical and environmental limitations; and the distribution in space and time of life on Earth and in the Cosmos. Astrobiology seeks an answer to one of...
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2007. — 413 p; il. — ISBN: 978-3-527-40660-9. This up-to-date resource is based on lectures developed by experts in the relevant fields and carefully edited by the leading astrobiologists within the European community. Aimed at graduate students in physics, astronomy and biology and their lecturers, the text begins with a general introduction to...
Arcade, 2020. — 424 p. Published to coincide with the launch of NASA’s Perseverance rover mission this summer, the definitive account of our quest to find life on the Red Planet. From The War of the Worlds to The Martian and to the amazing photographs sent back by the robotic rovers Curiosity and Opportunity , Mars has excited our imaginations as the most likely other habitat...
Kluwer, 2000. - 361 p. Living material contains about twenty different sorts of atom combined into a set of relatively simple molecules. Astrobiologists tend to believe that abiotic mater ial will give rise to life in any place where these molecules exist in appreciable abundances and where physical conditions approximate to those occurring here on Earth. We think this popular...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 408 p.
With over 450 planets now known to exist beyond the Solar System, spacecraft heading for Mars, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this timely book explores current ideas about the search for life in the Universe. It contains candid interviews with dozens of astronomers, geologists, biologists, and writers about the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 350 p. Astrobiology is an exciting interdisciplinary field that seeks to answer one of the most important and profound questions: are we alone? In this volume, leading international experts explore the frontiers of astrobiology, investigating the latest research questions that will fascinate a wide interdisciplinary audience at all levels. What...
Springer, 2011 - 338 p. Discusses a broad range of possible environments where alien life might evolve. Explains why carbon-based, water-borne life is more likely than the alternatives. Outlines for general readers the principles of ecology and the mechanisms of evolutionary change. Provides an imaginative and plausible framework for how life might evolve in different environments.
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2022. — 160 p. Extreme Habitable Environments is a book authored with the intention of providing introductory material suitable for those interested in learning about exoplanets. The focal point of this book is to expose its readers to the excitement in identifying exoplanets and exploring the possibility of life on them. This book offers structured...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 326 p. — ISBN: 0521598370. In The Search for Life on Other Planets, Jakosky offers a scientific foundation for thinking there may be life elsewhere in the Universe. Using the early history of the Earth and the conditions that would allow life to exist, he creates a sound, scientific foundation for the possibility of life on planets other than...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 326 p. — ISBN: 0521598370. In The Search for Life on Other Planets, Jakosky offers a scientific foundation for thinking there may be life elsewhere in the Universe. Using the early history of the Earth and the conditions that would allow life to exist, he creates a sound, scientific foundation for the possibility of life on planets other than...
Springer, 2013. — 349 p.
In Life in the Solar System and Beyond, Professor Jones has written a broad introduction to the subject, addressing important topics such as, what is life?, the origins of life and where to look for extraterrestrial life.
The chapters are arranged as follows: Chapter 1 is a broad introduction to the cosmos, with an emphasis on where we might find life....
Viking, 2020. — 368 p. We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations on solid scientific footing. Using his own expert...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2024. — 375 p. This book explores the questions of What, Why, When, How and Where we might find Extra-Terrestrials (a.k.a. Aliens) and their habitats throughout the Universe – and Who might they be? Starting from ourselves and the Earth and eventually speculating about life-forms that might span multiple Universes, it provides an accessible introduction...
Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2000. - 273p.
The discovery of life on other planets would be perhaps the most momentous revelation in human history, more disorienting and more profound than either the Copernican or Darwinian revolutions, which knocked the earth from the center of the universe and humankind from its position of lofty self-regard. In Here Be Dragons,...
Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. – 867 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-1380-6512-3. Handbook of Astrobiology is designed for astrobiology practitioners to enable them to review the major developments in the field and to learn about the newest discoveries. Since astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field, which draws on various other disciplines such as astronomy,...
N.-Y.: CRC Press, 2014. - 510p. Astrobiology: an overview Origin of elements and formation of solar system, planets and exoplanets Astrobiology education and public outreach Analysis of extraterrestrial organic matter in Murchison meteorite: a progress report Prebiotic syntheses of biochemical compounds: an overview Biochemical pathways as evidence for prebiotic syntheses Roles...
CRC Press, 2023. — 169 p. — ISBN 089-1032127147. Systems thinking/analysis is widely applied for solving complex problems in engineering and certain other fields. Astrobiology, which inherently involves complex problems, can benefit from such an approach. This book provides background and methodology of this approach for professionals, upper-level undergraduate students, and...
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010. — 113 p. Acknowledgments On the Prospect of an Extraterrestrial Encounter On the Pursuitworthiness of Extraterrestrial Studies SETI versus CETI The One World, One Science Argument Innateness, Linguistic Universals, Extraterrestrial Communication Notes References Index
Wiley-VCH, 2012. — 264 p. — ISBN: 3527409866. Authored by an experienced writer and a well-known researcher of stellar evolution, interstellar matter and spectroscopy, this unique treatise on the formation and observation of organic compounds in space includes a spectroscopy refresher, as well as links to geological findings and finishes with the outlook for future astronomical...
Springer, 2013. — 267 p. How did life originate on Earth? For over 50 years, scientists believed that life was the result of a chemical reaction involving simple molecules such as methane and ammonia cooking in a primordial soup. Recent space observations have revealed that old stars are capable of making very complex organic compounds. At some point in their evolution, stars...
New York: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 208 p. If extraterrestrials exist, where are they? What is the probability that somewhere out there in the universe an Earth-like planet supports an advanced culture? Why do so many people claim to have encountered Aliens? In this gripping exploration, scientist Don Lincoln exposes and explains the truths about the belief in and...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2021. — 1089 p. A rigorous and scientific analysis of the myriad possibilities of life beyond our planet. “Are we alone in the universe?” This tantalizing question has captivated humanity over millennia, but seldom has it been approached rigorously. Today the search for signatures of extraterrestrial life and intelligence has become a rapidly...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 1089 p. — ISBN 978-0674987579. A rigorous and scientific analysis of the myriad possibilities of life beyond our planet. “Are we alone in the universe?” This tantalizing question has captivated humanity over millennia, but seldom has it been approached rigorously. Today the search for signatures of extraterrestrial life and intelligence has...
N.-Y.: CRC Press, 2014. - 336p. Astrobiology is a multidisciplinary pursuit that in various guises encompasses astronomy, chemistry, planetary and Earth sciences, and biology. It relies on mathematical, statistical, and computer modeling for theory, and space science, engineering, and computing to implement observational and experimental work. Consequently, when studying...
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020. — 531 p. We live in a unique time in human history. We can scientifically ask the fundamental question: Are we alone? This is, arguably, one of the most crucial questions of humankind. Yes, we can ask this question in all seriousness and we can argue for (or maybe against) the idea of extraterrestrial life, interstellar travel,...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 336 p. Approaches from the sciences, philosophy and theology, including the emerging field of astrobiology, can provide fresh perspectives to the age-old question 'what is life?'. Has the secret of life been unveiled and is it nothing more than physical chemistry? Modern philosophers will ask if we can even define life at all, as we...
Springer, 2021. — 878 p. This book offers a vision of how evolutionary life processes can be modelled. It presents a mathematical description that can be used not only for the full evolution of life on Earth from RNA to modern human societies, but also the possible evolution of life on exoplanets, thus leading to SETI, the current Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. The...
Pergamon Press, 1965. - 424 p.
That book had its beginning in a symposium organized in 1963. This book covers most of the areas of greatest interest on the possibility of life on the other planet.
New York: Springer, 2006. — 324 p. Gives the first a coherent and comprehensive account of how meteorites may have brought the seeds of life to Earth. Embedds specific results within a broader framework that considers the creation and evolution of the Early Earth. Provides experienced researchers with a modern and compact reference, as well as a source of material for lectures in...
New York: Icon Books Ltd, 2019. — 176 p. Extraterrestrial life is a common theme inscience fiction, but is it a serious prospect in the real world? Astrobiologyis the emerging field of science that seeks to answer this question. The possibility of life elsewhere in the cosmosis one of the most profound subjects that human beings can ponder. AstrophysicistAndrew May gives an...
New York: Springer, 2021. — 298 p. Scientists have been searching for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations since Frank Drake’s first radio survey in 1960. But what would actually happen if SETI’s search succeeds? Is there any way we could even make sense of the signal we receive?
USA: University of Arizona Press, 2020. — 592 p. — (Space Science Series). — ISBN: 9780816540068. Are we alone in the universe? How did life arise on our planet? How do we search for life beyond Earth? These profound questions excite and intrigue broad cross sections of science and society. Answering these questions is the province of the emerging, strongly interdisciplinary...
Berlin etc.: Springer, 2008. — 241 p. "How did life originate and why were left-handed molecules selected for its architecture?" This question of high public and interdisciplinary scientific interest is the central theme of this book. It is widely known that in processes triggering the origin of life on Earth, the equal occurrence, the parity between left-handed amino acids and...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2006. - 480p.
This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn. As necessary background, the book also includes brief summaries of the history of thinking...
CRC Press; Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. — 287 p. — ISBN: 9780367147938. This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now. For biogeographers and other researchers interested in biodiversity and the evolution of life on islands, Biogeology: Evolution in a Changing Landscape provides an overview of a large swathe of the...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 331 p. — ISBN: 0674033213
Life is a property of the universe. We may not know how it began or where else it exists, but we have come to know a great deal about how it relates to stars, planets, and the larger cosmos. In clear and compelling terms, this book shows how the emerging field of astrobiology investigates the nature of life in space....
New York: Scientific American Edit., 2022 — 180 p. — (Scientific American ebooks). — ISBN 9781250121578. How did life begin on Earth? Does it exist elsewhere? What would those life forms be like? These fundamental questions about the nature of life and our own cosmic significance are endlessly fascinating. In this eBook, we present several theories on the origin of life, some...
National Academies Press, 2007. — 131 p. Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars. The first is new information about the Martian environment including evidence of a watery past and the possibility of atmospheric methane. The second is the possibility of microbial viability on Mars. Finally, the Vision for Space Exploration...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2019. — 265 p. The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been accompanied by another, more complicated one: if there is extraterrestrial life, how would we communicate with it? In this book, Daniel Oberhaus leads readers on a quest for extraterrestrial communication. Exploring Earthlings' various attempts to reach...
Springer, 2011. - 282 p. Grappling with Gravity explores the physiological changes that will occur in humans and the plants and animals that accompany humans as we move to new worlds, be it to colony in the emptiness of space or settlements on the Moon, Mars, or other moons or planets. This book focuses on the biomedical aspects, while not ignoring other life-changing influences...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. - 259 p. Informed by new planetary discoveries and the findings from recent robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, scientists are rapidly replacing centuries of speculation about potential extraterrestrial habitats with real knowledge about the possibility of life outside our own biosphere - if it exists, and where. This book...
3rd edition. — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. — 417 p. Exploring the potential for extraterrestrial life and the origins of our own planet, this comprehensive introduction to astrobiology is updated with the latest findings. Informed by the discoveries and analyses of extrasolar planets and the findings from recent robotic missions across the solar system, scientists are...
3rd edition. — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. — 417 p. — ISBN 978-1421441290. Exploring the potential for extraterrestrial life and the origins of our own planet, this comprehensive introduction to astrobiology is updated with the latest findings. Informed by the discoveries and analyses of extrasolar planets and the findings from recent robotic missions across the solar...
3rd edition. — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. — 417 p. — ISBN 978-1421441290. Exploring the potential for extraterrestrial life and the origins of our own planet, this comprehensive introduction to astrobiology is updated with the latest findings. Informed by the discoveries and analyses of extrasolar planets and the findings from recent robotic missions across the solar...
New York: Springer, 2004. — 260 p. This study investigates the major theories of the origins of life in light of modern research with the aim of distinguishing between the necessary and the optional and between deterministic and random influences in the emergence of what we call life. Life is treated as a cosmic phenomenon whose emergence and driving force should be viewed...
Springer, 2004. — 258 p. This study investigates the major theories of the origins of life in light of modern research with the aim of distinguishing between the necessary and the optional and between deterministic and random influences in the emergence of what we call ?life.? Life is treated as a cosmic phenomenon whose emergence and driving force should be viewed...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 334 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-511-36667-3 Several major breakthroughs have helped contribute to the emerging field of astrobiology. Focusing on these developments, this fascinating 2007 book explores some of the most important problems in this field. It examines how planetary systems formed, and how water and the biomolecules necessary for life were...
Wiley, 2010. — 304 p. On 27th December 1984, a team of meteorite hunters, funded by the National Science Foundation, picked up a rock of 1.93 kg in an Antarctic area known as Alan Hills. Since it was the fi rst one to be collected in 1984, it was labeled ALH84001, AL an H ills 19 84 no. 00 1 . Soon it became evident that this meteorite originated from our neighbor planet Mars – a...
Springer & Praxis Publishing, 2009. — 167 p. In writing this book, I set out to educate, entertain, and stimulate public support for intelligent efforts by humankind to search for alien signals from space. As the book explains the primary facts and concepts in layman's terms, the reader will need only elementary mathematics to grasp the major issues. Whilst some...
Boston: MIT Press, 2020. — 241 p. Are we alone in the universe? If not, where is everybody? An engaging exploration of one of the most important unsolved problems in science. Everything we know about how planets form and how life arises suggests that human civilization on Earth should not be unique. We ought to see abundant evidence of extraterrestrial activity-but we don't....
University Science Books, 2008. — 478 p. Winner of the 2011 Chambliss Prize for Astronomical Writing from The American Astronomical Society! This book offers an advanced introduction to the increasingly robust fields of extrasolar planets and astrobiology. No other text currently available applies this level of mathematics and physics, while also providing an extensive...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 238 p. Are humans a galactic oddity, or will complex life with human abilities develop on planets with environments that remain habitable for long enough? In a clear, jargon-free style, two leading researchers in the burgeoning field of astrobiology critically examine the major evolutionary steps that led us from the distant origins of life to the...
Oneworld Publ, 2011. — 208 p. — ISBN 13 9781851688814. Мы не одиноки: почему мы уже нашли внеземную жизнь Extraterrestrial life exists and there is evidence to prove it. The book that ignited the astronomy community has come back for everyone else This groundbreaking book demonstrates that between the results of the 1976 Viking I lander and the latest scientific discoveries -...
3rd Edition. - Springer, 2018. - 353 p. This class-tested textbook examines the basic elements of living systems: energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats in crucial depth. These elements define the opportunities and limitations for life on other worlds. The book argues that life forms we would recognize may be more common in our solar system than many assume. It also considers,...
New York: Springer, 2008. — 260 p. This is not a comprehensive astrobiology text. Instead, it pursues a few key topics to a depth rarely found in other works. These include the definition of life, lessons from the history of life on Earth, possible sources for life, the importance of carbon as opposed to silicon, alternatives to water as a solvent, and signatures of life. It's...
Berlin: Springer, 2004. — 179 p. Energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats -- the basic elements of living systems – define the opportunities and limitations for life on other worlds. This study examines each of these parameters in crucial depth and makes the argument that life forms we would recognize may be more common in our solar system than many assume. It also considers,...
New York: Springer, 1999. — 665 p. This volume covers the fields of origin, evolution and phylogenesis from prokaryotic to eukaryotic cells. The eminent authors, experts in their fields, review the three kingdoms of life (Archea, Eubacteria and Eukarya) from molecular evolutionary levels to ecological aspects in enigmatic habitats, including general reviews of puzzling pro--and...
New York: Springer, 2006. — 714 p. Foreword Brief Introduction Acknowledgements List of Authors and their Addresses Biodiversity and Extremophiles The Extremophiles: Diversity of Life Environments Prokaryotic Life The Algae–Diverse Life Forms and Global Importance Fungal Lives Life in Saline and Hypersaline Environments Thermophilic Communities as Autonomous Ecosystems Life in...
Kluwer, 2004. — 740 p. It seems almost certain that there was once an RNA word in which RNA functioned both as a genetic material and a source of essential catalytic activities. It helps to think of the problem of the Origin of Life as made up of three possibly overlapping sub problems. How did the RNA world come into existence? How did the RNA world “invent” the last common...
New York: Wiley-Scrivener, 2021. — 352 p. An in-depth view of the panspermia hypothesis examined against the latest knowledge of planetary formation and related processes. Panspermia is the concept that life can be passively transported through space on various bodies and seed, habitable planets and moons, which we are beginning to learn may exist in large numbers. It is an old...
Beverly: Wiley-Scrivener, 2021. — 400 p. The data in this book are new or updated, and will serve also as Origin of Life and evolutionary studies. Endospores of bacteria have a long history of use as model organisms in astrobiology, including survival in extreme environments and interplanetary transfer of life. Numerous other bacteria as well as archaea, lichens, fungi, algae...
Springer, 2008. — 546 p. — ISBN10: 1402088361, ISBN13: 978-1402088360 From Fossils to Astrobiology reviews developments in paleontology and geobiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field of Astrobiology, the study of life in the Universe. Many traditional areas of scientific study, including astronomy, chemistry and planetary science, contribute to Astrobiology, but the...
Springer, 2015. — 154 p. This is a book on planets: Solar system planets and dwarf planets. And planets outside our solar system – exoplanets. How did they form? What types of planets are there and what do they have in common? How do they differ? What do we know about their atmospheres – if they have one? What are the conditions for life and on which planets may they be met? And...
New York: Emerson-Adams Press, 1998. - 542 p.
The first popular and accurate discussion of natural evolution, origins of the universe, stars and planets. Collaboration between famous American Carl Sagan and world/famous Russian Astronomer, I.S. Shklovskii explaining the origins and life in the universe.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. — 287 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-5275-2301-2. The fertilization of the universe and the subsequent existence of the living cosmos are essential aspects of research into the cosmic evolution. Sustainability, a universal phenomenon and a footprint of evolution, is also a cosmic endeavour, and continues to consolidate along with the advancement of...
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 160 p. Astrobiology is a rapidly emerging field of intense scientific and technological activity, evident from the numerous recent space probes attempting to look for the possible existence of alien primeval life. This book explores the possibility of life on other planets and moons and exoplanets, either in their parent stars...
Springer Science & Business Media, 2012. — 304 p. Emigrating Beyond Earth puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the technologies and strategies needed to colonize space, the authors examine the human and societal reasons for space colonization. They make space colonization seems like a natural step by demonstrating that if will...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 329 p. — ISBN 978-0190915650. How universal are our moral obligations? Should we attempt to communicate with life beyond our planet? What is "life"? Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology explores the most important questions related to the field of astrobiology, and the resulting book is the most comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach...
New York: Springer, 2020. — 237 p. Astrobiology not only investigates how early life took hold of our planet but also life on other planets – both in our Solar System and beyond – and their potential for habitability. The book take readers from the scars on planetary surfaces made by space rocks to the history of the Solar System narrated by those space rocks as well as...
Springer, 2013. — 324 p. Initial ideas regarding the habitability of extrasolar planets have focused on the overall size of the planet and its location within the stellar habitable zone. However, many additional factors exist that affect their potential ability to harbor life. This is particularly true of planets orbiting red dwarf stars, for it is these worlds that will have the...
2nd Edition. — Springer, 2019. – 582 p. – ISBN: 978-3-030-17920-5. The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life describes, complete with fascinating biographical details of the thinkers involved, a history of the universe as interpreted by the expanding body of knowledge of humankind. From subatomic particles to the protein chains that form life, and expanding in scale to the...
CRC Press, 2022. — 318 p. — ISBN 978-1-003-27029-4. This book is a "Big History" of the evidence regarding how we came to be. It briefly explores philosophical thought and how our past might affect our future. The text summarizes different perspectives, including the strengths and weaknesses of each. The genesis of our planet is explored, especially the circumstances that must...
Wiley-Scrivener Publishing, 2021. — 432 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-71116-2. This unique book advances the frontier discussion of a wide spectrum of astrobiological issues on scientific advances, space ethics, social impact, religious meaning, and public policy formulation. Astrobiology is an exploding discipline in which not only the natural sciences, but also the social sciences and...
Springer, 2015. — 110 p. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) represents one of the most significant crossroads at which the assumptions and methods of scientific inquiry come into direct contact with—and in many cases conflict with—those of religion. Indeed, at the core of SETI is the same question that motivates many interested in religion: What is the place of...
New York: Springer, 2016. - 170 p.
This book explores humanity’s thoughts and ideas about extraterrestrial life, paying close attention to the ways science and culture interact with one another to create a context of imagination and discovery related to life on other worlds. Despite the recent explosion in our knowledge of other planets and the seeming era of discovery in which...
Springer, 2013. — 187 p. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings 35). — ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-4614-5190-7. “The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets” presents the main processes participating in the atmospheric evolution of terrestrial planets. A group of experts in the different fields provide an update of our current knowledge on this topic. Several...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2006. - 310p.
This book addresses all scientists and others interested in the origins, development and fate of intelligent species in the observable part of our universe. In particular, the author scrutinizes what kind of information about extraterrestrial intelligent life can be inferred from our own biological, cultural and scientific evolution and the likely...
Berlin: Springer, 2003. — 256 p. Stars, Galaxies, and the Origin of Chemical Elements Planet Formation The Search for Extrasolar Planets Planets Suitable for Life Life and its Origin on Earth Evolution The Search for Extraterrestrial Life The Future of Mankind Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
N.-Y.: Springer, 2010. - 310p.
This book addresses all scientists and others interested in the origins, development and fate of intelligent species in the observable part of our universe. In particular, the author scrutinizes what kind of information about extraterrestrial intelligent life can be inferred from our own biological, cultural and scientific evolution and the likely...
United States National Research Council, 2022. — 781 p. FrontMatter Acknowledgment of Reviewers Introduction to Planetary Science, Astrobiology, and Planetary Defense Tour of the Solar System: A Transformative Decade of Exploration Priority Science Questions Question 1: Evolution of the Protoplanetary Disk Question 2: Accretion in the Outer Solar System Question 3: Origin of...
Springer, 2013. — 375 p. This book addresses important current and historical topics in astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The first section covers the plurality of worlds debate from antiquity through the nineteenth century, while section two covers the extraterrestrial life debate from the twentieth...
Springer, 2014. — 329 p. Extraterrestrial Altruism examines a basic assumption of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): that extraterrestrials will be transmitting messages to us for our benefit. This question of whether extraterrestrials will be altruistic has become increasingly important in recent years as SETI scientists have begun contemplating transmissions...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 340p.
In this compelling book, leading scientists and historians explore the Drake Equation, which guides modern astrobiology's search for life beyond Earth. First used in 1961 as the organising framework for a conference in Green Bank, West Virginia, it uses seven factors to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilisations in...
Berghahn Books, 2011. — 263 p. Astronomers around the world are pointing their telescopes toward the heavens, searching for signs of intelligent life. If they make contact with an advanced alien civilization, how will humankind respond? In thinking about first contact, the contributors to this volume present new empirical and theoretical research on the societal dimensions of...
Wiley-Scrivener Publishing, 2021. — 352 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-64039-4. An in-depth view of the panspermia hypothesis examined against the latest knowledge of planetary formation and related processes. Panspermia is the concept that life can be passively transported through space on various bodies and seed, habitable planets and moons, which we are beginning to learn may exist in...
Wiley-Scrivener Publishing, 2021. — 352 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-64039-4. An in-depth view of the panspermia hypothesis examined against the latest knowledge of planetary formation and related processes. Panspermia is the concept that life can be passively transported through space on various bodies and seed, habitable planets and moons, which we are beginning to learn may exist in...
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2023. — 234 p. — ISBN: 978-981-126-625-6. With the rapid growth of new evidence from astronomy, space science and biology that supports the theory of life as a cosmic rather than terrestrial phenomenon, this book discusses a set of crucial data and pictures showing that life is still arriving at our planet. Although it could spark...
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2023. — 234 p. — ISBN: 978-981-126-625-6. With the rapid growth of new evidence from astronomy, space science and biology that supports the theory of life as a cosmic rather than terrestrial phenomenon, this book discusses a set of crucial data and pictures showing that life is still arriving at our planet. Although it could spark...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2023. — 243 p. Preface Author Drake Equation: An Overview Setting the Stage for Cosmic Discovery The Birth of Observational Astrophysics Stellar Evolution Planet Evolution The Origin of Life Evolution of Life and Intelligence Habitable Worlds Appendix 1: Commonly Used Physical and Commonly Used Physical and Appendix 2: Exoplanets within 15 Light Years...
Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020. — 567 p. — (Chemical Biology 13). — ISBN 978-1-83916-202-2. Alexander Todd, the 1957 Nobel laureate in chemistry is credited with the statement: “where there is life, there is phosphorus”. Phosphorus chemical biology underlies most of life’s reactions and processes, from the covalent bonds that hold RNA and DNA together, to the making and...
Copernicus Books, USA, 2009. — 338 p. — ISBN: 0387952896 What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life on Earth and to what...
Copernicus Books, USA, 2009. – 271 p. – ISBN: 0387952896 What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life on Earth and to what...
Copernicus Books, USA, 2009. — 378 p. — ISBN: 0387952896 What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life on Earth and to what...
2nd ed. — N.-Y.: Springer, 2015. — 434 p. Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. The sheer enormity of the numbers almost demands that we...
UK, USA: Prinston University Press, 2018. — 174 p. — ISBN: 0691180539. The story of the search for life on Mars-and the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans there Does life exist on Mars? The question has captivated humans for centuries, but today it has taken on new urgency. NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars orbit by the 2030s. SpaceX wants to go by...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2010. — 221 p. — ISBN10: 981256635X The idea that comets may be connected with the origin of life on Earth was considered heresy a few decades ago, with scientists shying away from this possibility as if from a medieval superstition. However the case that comets may have contributed at least the complex organic building blocks of life has...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. - 322 p.
Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy.
Describing the most recent discoveries by space exploration missions, including the Kepler...
Landes Bioscience, 2009. — 158 p.
With the accelerating pace of genomic analysis and space exploration, the field of prebiotic evolution and astrobiology is poised for a century of unprecedented advances ahead, and there is a need for textbooks for students. The authors of this book, aware of the difficulty of covering the multifaceted subject by any single author, have decided...
Berlin: Springer, 2012. — 148 p. What does existing scientific knowledge about physics, chemistry, meteorology and biology tell us about the likelihood of extraterrestrial life and civilizations? And what does the fact that there is currently no credible scientific evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial biospheres or civilizations teach us? This book reviews the various...
Singapore: Springer, 2019. — 454 p. This book provides concise and cutting-edge reviews in astrobiology, a young and still emerging multidisciplinary field of science that addresses the fundamental questions of how life originated and diversified on Earth, whether life exists beyond Earth, and what is the future for life on Earth. Readers will find coverage of the latest...
Springer, 2023. — 96 p. — ISBN 9789811992209. Приключение: явления невесомости и жизнь на космической станции With the advent of the space age, global space travel is not the preserve of science fiction and dreams; it will happen in the Space Shuttle, from the South Pole to the North Pole, through Mount Everest, to the moon, and even to Mars. People are eager to understand the...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 251 p. — ISBN: 0521448034 Is it possible that extraterrestrial life forms exist within our Galaxy, the Milky Way? This book offers a critical analysis by leading experts in a range of sciences, of the plausibility that other intelligent lifeforms do exist. Exploration of the Solar System, and observations with telescopes that...
2nd ed. — Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 239 p. Is it possible that extraterrestrial life forms exist within our Galaxy, the Milky Way? This book offers a critical analysis by leading experts in a range of sciences, of the plausibility that other intelligent lifeforms do exist. Exploration of the solar system, and observations with telescopes that probe deep space, have come...
М.: АСТ, 2022. — 320 с. В 2017 году гавайские ученые обнаружили в Солнечной системе объект, совершенно к ней не относящийся: он двигался слишком быстро, по необычной орбите и явно прилетел с другой звезды. Ави Леб утверждает, что это был инопланетный зонд, отправленный с разведывательной целью. Космический гость получил имя Оумуамуа, в переводе с гавайского - "посланник".
М.: АСТ, 2022. — 320 с. В 2017 году гавайские ученые обнаружили в Солнечной системе объект, совершенно к ней не относящийся: он двигался слишком быстро, по необычной орбите и явно прилетел с другой звезды. Ави Леб утверждает, что это был инопланетный зонд, отправленный с разведывательной целью. Космический гость получил имя Оумуамуа, в переводе с гавайского - "посланник".
Под ред. А. Ю. Розанова, Е. А. Сапрыкина. — Дубна: ОИЯИ, 2024. — 199 с. Предисловие. История астробиологии. Теории происхождения жизни. Пребиотическая химическая эволюция. Становление астробиологии как научной дисциплины. Развитие взглядов на вопрос происхождения жизни. Мир РНК. Абиогенный синтез пребиотических соединений. Гипотеза астрокатализа. Проблема хиральности....
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2018. — 284 с. Если наша планета не уникальна, то вероятность повсеместного существования разумной жизни огромна. Более того, за всю историю человечества у инопланетян было достаточно времени, чтобы дать о себе знать. Так где же они? Какие они? И если мы найдем их, то чем это обернется? Ответы на эти вопросы ищут ученые самых разных профессий – астрономы,...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2018. — ISBN 978-5-9614-4970-9. Если наша планета не уникальна, то вероятность повсеместного существования разумной жизни огромна. Более того, за всю историю человечества у инопланетян было достаточно времени, чтобы дать о себе знать. Так где же они? Какие они? И если мы найдем их, то чем это обернется? Ответы на эти вопросы ищут ученые самых разных...
М.: Слово, 2005. — 368 с. Книга посвящена актуальной в космической технике проблеме: созданию устройств для выращивания растений на борту пилотируемого космического летательного аппарата для воспроизводства витаминной зелени для питания экипажа. В ней даны классификация и обзор существующих космических оранжерей, описано воздействие факторов космического полета на рост и развитие...
М.: Фирма «Слово», 2005. — 368 с. Книга посвящена актуальной в космической технике проблеме: созданию устройств для выращивания растений на борту пилотируемого космического летательного аппарата для воспроизводства витаминной зелени для питания экипажа. В ней даны классификация и обзор существующих космических оранжерей, описано воздействие факторов космического полета на рост и...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 122 с. Исследования Луны и ее вещества, доставленного на Землю с помощью автоматических и пилотируемых космических станций, позволили выяснить основные вопросы экзобиологии (космической биологии) Луны: возможное присутствие лунных форм жизни, условия пребывания человека на Луне, присутствие органогенных (входящих в состав живого вещества) химических элементов...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 122 с.
Исследования Луны и ее вещества, доставленного на Землю с помощью автоматических и пилотируемых космических станций, позволили выяснить основные вопросы экзобиологии (космической биологии) Луны: возможное присутствие лунных форм жизни, условия пребывания человека на Луне, присутствие органогенных (входящих в состав живого вещества) химических элементов...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 430 с. «Основы космической биологии и медицины» являются совместным изданием, осуществленным в соответствии с соглашением о сотрудничестве в области космических исследований между Академией наук СССР и Национальным управлением США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства. Настоящее издание представляет собой обстоятельный обзор,...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 430 с. «Основы космической биологии и медицины» являются совместным изданием, осуществленным в соответствии с соглашением о сотрудничестве в области космических исследований между Академией наук СССР и Национальным управлением США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства. Настоящее издание представляет собой обстоятельный обзор,...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 428 с. «Основы космической биологии и медицины» являются совместным изданием, осуществленным в соответствии с соглашением о сотрудничестве в области космических исследований между Академией наук СССР и Национальным управлением США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства. Настоящее издание представляет собой обстоятельный обзор,...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 428 с. «Основы космической биологии и медицины» являются совместным изданием, осуществленным в соответствии с соглашением о сотрудничестве в области космических исследований между Академией наук СССР и Национальным управлением США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства. Настоящее издание представляет собой обстоятельный обзор,...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 352 с. «Основы космической биологии и медицины» являются совместным изданием, осуществленным в соответствии с соглашением о сотрудничестве в области космических исследований между Академией наук СССР и Национальным управлением США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства. Настоящее издание представляет собой обстоятельный обзор,...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 352 с. «Основы космической биологии и медицины» являются совместным изданием, осуществленным в соответствии с соглашением о сотрудничестве в области космических исследований между Академией наук СССР и Национальным управлением США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства. Настоящее издание представляет собой обстоятельный обзор,...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 560 с. «Основы космической биологии и медицины» являются совместным изданием, осуществленным в соответствии с соглашением о сотрудничестве в области космических исследований между Академией наук СССР и Национальным управлением США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства. Настоящее издание представляет собой обстоятельный обзор,...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 560 с. «Основы космической биологии и медицины» являются совместным изданием, осуществленным в соответствии с соглашением о сотрудничестве в области космических исследований между Академией наук СССР и Национальным управлением США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства. Настоящее издание представляет собой обстоятельный обзор,...
М.: Изд-во физико-математической литературы, 2004. – 648 с.
Научно-популярное изложение о поиске внеземного разума. Рассказывается о методах поиска внеземных цивилизаций, об экспериментах по поиску сигналов. Рассматриваются астрономические, биологические философские аспекты проблемы.
Книга доступна читателю со средним образованием. Она не требует никаких специальных знаний....
М.: АНФ, 2022. — 415 с. Введение Форма vs функция: что общего у обитателей всех миров? Кто такие животные и кто такие инопланетяне? Движение: шаги и парение в пространстве Каналы коммуникации Интеллект (что бы это ни значило) Социальность: сотрудничество, конкуренция и чаепитие с инопланетянами Информация — древнейший товар Речь — уникальная способность Искусственный интеллект:...
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К.: Радянська школа, 1981. — 73 с.
В справочном пособии даются краткие сведения об условиях и системах жизнеобеспечения космического полета человека, о влиянии космоса на жизнедеятельность бактерий, водорослей, высших растений, животных, а также о жизнедеятельности человека в условиях орбитального полета и подготовке космонавтов.
Материал предназначен для школьного курса общей...
К.: Радянська школа, 1981. — 73 с.
В справочном пособии даются краткие сведения об условиях и системах жизнеобеспечения космического полета человека, о влиянии космоса на жизнедеятельность бактерий, водорослей, высших растений, животных, а также о жизнедеятельности человека в условиях орбитального полета и подготовке космонавтов.
Материал предназначен для школьного курса общей...
Перевод с английского. — М.: Мир, 1965. — 120 с. Книга представляет собой популярный и увлекательно написанный очерк по астробиологии - науки, ищущей ответы на очень важные и интересные вопросы. Есть ли жизнь вне Земли? При каких условиях возможно зарождение и развитие жизни? Чем внеземная жизнь может отличаться от земных её форм? Сколько обитаемых планет во Вселенной? Эти и...
М.: АН СССР, 1956. — 228 с.
Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга представляет попытку дать на основе достижений современного [на тот момент] естествознания посильный ответ на вопрос о распространенности жизни во Вселенной и, в частности, об обитаемости планет нашей солнечной системы. Содержание всей книги подвергалось совместному обсуждению авторов. Введение и заключительная...
М.: АН СССР, 1956. — 228 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга представляет попытку дать на основе достижений современного [на тот момент] естествознания посильный ответ на вопрос о распространенности жизни во Вселенной и, в частности, об обитаемости планет нашей солнечной системы. Содержание всей книги подвергалось совместному обсуждению авторов. Введение и заключительная...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Ярославль: Ярославский государственный педагогический университет, 2012. — 115 с. В пособии рассматривается проблема поиска жизни в астрономической Вселенной. Кроме обзора современного состояния указанного направления астрономии и естествознания, данное пособие содержит около 300 задач. Наряду с учебными задачами сформулированы...
М.: АСТ: CORPUS, 2016. — 110 с. — ISBN: 978-5-17-091618-4.
Есть ли жизнь на Марсе? Мы до сих пор не знаем ответа на этот вопрос. Но зато мы точно знаем, что скоро она там появится. Автор этой книги, специалист в области технологических прогнозов и постоянный спикер ТЕД Стивен Петранек, уверен: первый пилотируемый полет на Марс состоится еще до 2030 года. Причем это, скорее...
М.: ГЕО - СИНТЕГ, 1997. — 240 с. — (Информатизация России на пороге XXI века). — ISBN: 5-86639-031-0 Итоговая книга биофизика А.С. Пресмана представляет собой научную монографию, посвященную важнейшим проблемам понимания жизни в земном и в космическом масштабе. Вместе с тем она написана простым и ясным языком, позволяющим понять затронутую проблематику каждому, кого она...
М.: Наука, 1990. — 185с. — ISBN: 5-02-004731-7. В монографии изложены литературные и собственные экспериментальные данные по влиянию силы тяжести на ростовые процессы растений, глубоко исследована гравитропическая реакция растений. Обобщены данные экспериментов с растениями в условиях микрогравитации на орбитальных станциях и биоспутниках. Для биологов, физиологов, медиков.
М.: Наука, 1990. — 185с. — ISBN: 5-02-004731-7. В монографии изложены литературные и собственные экспериментальные данные по влиянию силы тяжести на ростовые процессы растений, глубоко исследована гравитропическая реакция растений. Обобщены данные экспериментов с растениями в условиях микрогравитации на орбитальных станциях и биоспутниках. Для биологов, физиологов, медиков.
Выходные данные не указаны, 9 стр. Введение Особенность Земли как планеты солнечной системы. Условия, благоприятствовавшие зарождению жизни на земле. Заключение Список литературы
Москва: ОИЯИ, 2020. — 130 с. (на русском и английском языках). Работа посвящена результатам детального бактериальнопалеонтологического исследования метеорита Оргей и представляет собой иллюстрированный атлас микрофоссилий (как прокариот, так и эукариот), обнаруженных на свежих внутренних сколах данного метеорита. Представлено более 60 изображений, полученных с помощью...
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М.: Наука, 2010. — 691 с. — ISBN: 978-5-02036-695-4. В книге представлены статьи крупнейшего ученого-биохимика, одного из основоположников космической биологии академика Н.М. Сисакяна, относящиеся к 40-60 гг. прошлого столетия. Для научных работников, студентов, аспирантов, специализирующихся в области молекулярной биологии, биохимии и космической биологии.
М.: ОИПД ВЦ ГKC РФ, 1997. — 128 с. — ISBN 5-207-00-456-14. Книга — итог многолетней работы автора в области гравитационной и космической биологии. В нее вошли результаты экспериментальных исследований, некоторые предположения и гипотезы, сформулированные на основе анализа этих результатов, литературных данных и современного состояния проблемы. В последние десятилетия нашего...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1953. — 68 с.
«Возможна ли жизнь на других планетах?» — этот вопрос живо интересует самые широкие круги людей.Материалисты считают, что жизнь является высшей стадией развития материи и должна возникать везде, где есть для этого условия. Следовательно, жизнь существует не только на Земле, но и на бесчисленном множестве других тел вселенной…
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Пер. с англ., Москва, Regular and haotic dynamics, 2012. - 144 с.
В книге подробно, с использованием математического аппарата рассматриваются проблемы естественного отбора, дарвиновской эволюции, популяционной генетики, происхождения жизни, процесса старения. На основе собственного оригинального подхода критически анализируются основы неодарвинизма, а также некоторые выводы...
Калуга: издание автора, 1929. — 32 с.
Книга даёт широкий взгляд на всеобщее распространение в космосе жизни, на её разнообразие, указывает на миры в мирах, на периодичность и усложнение материи и явлений — без конца, на существование бесконечно удалённых эпох, когда были «эфирные» животные, не подобные земным и трудно вообразимые, хотя совершенные и сознательные.
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