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...
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. -248 p. 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....
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...
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...
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. 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 Outreach Rethinking Humanity’s Place in the Universe...
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...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2001. - 253 p. 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...
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...
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. - 472 p. 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...
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...
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. - 554 p. 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...
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...
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...
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...
Chelsea House Publications, 2006. — 66 p. — ISBN: 0-7910-8971-1 Series: 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. — 439 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
New York: Springer, 2012. - 518 p. 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...
IOS Press, 2005. — 240 p. — ISBN: 1-58603-512-6 Book from the series: NATO Science Series: Life and Behavioral 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...
Wiley, 2007. — 436 p. — ISBN: 3527406603 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 astrobiology, followed by sections on...
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...
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....
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.
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....
Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2000. - 273 p. 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. - 510 p. 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...
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...
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...
N.-Y.: CRC Press, 2014. - 336 p. 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
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, 2006. — 714 p. Brief Introduction 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 Ice Life under Pressure:...
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...
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?...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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. - 310 p. 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...
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. - 310 p. 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...
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...
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. - 340 p. 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...
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 space...
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...
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...
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