Astrobiology
Published in Association with Mary Ann Liebert
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Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space & Planetary Science | Geochemistry | Planetary Science
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space & Planetary Science | Geochemistry | Planetary Science
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15578070 | ISSN:
15311074
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This top-cited peer-reviewed journal dedicated to understanding life's origin, evolution, and distribution in the universe focuses on new findings and discoveries from interplanetary exploration and laboratory research.
Astrobiology is the most-cited peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the understanding of life's origin, evolution, and distribution in the universe, with a focus on new findings and discoveries from interplanetary exploration and laboratory research.
Astrobiology coverage includes:
Astrophysics
Astropaleontology
Astroplanets
Bioastronomy
Cosmochemistry
Ecogenomics
Exobiology
Extremophiles
Geomicrobiology
Gravitational biology
Life detection technology
Meteoritics
Planetary geoscience
Planetary protection
Prebiotic chemistry
Space exploration technology
Terraforming
Astrobiology is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Sherry L. Cady, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and other leading investigators.
Audience: Microbiologists, chemists, geologists, life scientists, astronomers and astrophysicists, paleontologists, planetary scientists, among others.
Editor-in-Chief
| Sherry L. Cady, PhD | Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA |
Deputy Editor
| Christopher P. McKay, PhD | NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA |
Asian Editor
| Kenichiro Sugitani, DSc | Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan |
Australian Editor
| Martin J. Van Kranendonk, PhD | University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia |
Senior Editors
| Kathleen A. Campbell, PhD | University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Charles Cockell, PhD | School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| Don A. Cowan, BSc, MSc, PhD | University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa |
| Lewis R. Dartnell, PhD | The Centre For Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck Earth Sciences London, United Kingdom |
| James F. Kasting, PhD | Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA |
| Manasvi Lingam, PhD | Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA |
| Timothy W. Lyons, PhD | University of California, Riverside, CA, USA |
| Jack F. Mustard, PhD | Brown University, Providence, RI, USA |
| Victor Parro, PhD | Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) Madrid, Spain |
| Radu Popa, PhD | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Rebecca Prescott, PhD | University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA |
| Margaret S. Race, PhD | SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Petra Rettberg, PhD | DLR German Aerospace Center, Cologne, Germany |
| John D. Rummel, PhD | SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Daniella Scalice, PhD | NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA |
| Mitch Schulte, PhD | NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA |
| Dirk Schulze-Makuch, PhD | Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| Sara Seager, PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Norman Sleep, PhD | Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
| Michael C. Storrie-Lombardi, MD | Kinohi Institute, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
| Jorge L. Vago, PhD | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands |
| Frances Westall, PhD | Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Orléans, France |
| Mary Beth Wilhelm, PhD | NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, US |
| David A. Baum, PhD | University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA |
Editorial Board Members
| Abigail Allwood, PhD | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA |
| Steven A. Benner, PhD | Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Alachua, FL, USA |
| Daniella Billi, PhD | University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy |
| Nathalie A. Cabrol, PhD | SETI Institute Carl Sagan Center NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, USA |
| Barbara Cavalazzi, PhD | Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
| Elias Chatzitheodoridis, PhD | National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece |
| Christopher Chyba, PhD | Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA |
| Catharine A. Conley, PhD | NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA |
| Huan Cui, PhD | Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), University of Paris, Paris, France |
| Pascale Ehrenfreund, PhD | George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA |
| Alberto G. Fairén, PhD | Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain |
| Franco Ferrari, PhD | CASA, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland |
| Douglas Galante, PhD | Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Christos D Georgiou, PhD | University of Patras, Patras, Greece |
| Rainer E. Glaser, PhD | University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA |
| Nader Haghighipour, PhD | University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA |
| Ruth Hemmersbach, PhD | DLR German Aerospace Center, Cologne, Germany |
| Nancy W. Hinman, PhD | University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA |
| Nils G. Holm, PhD | Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Reggie Hudson, PhD | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, USA |
| Fumio Inagaki, PhD | JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan |
| Nancy Y. Kiang, PhD | NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA |
| Isabelle Kingsley | University of New South Wales Kensington, Australia |
| Gerhard Kminek, PhD | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands |
| Kensei Kobayashi, DSc | Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan |
| Doron Lancet, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
| Yangting Lin, PhD | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |
| Charles H. Lineweaver, PhD | Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| Craig P. Marshall, PhD | University Of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA |
| Zita Martins, PhD | Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon, Portugal |
| Shigenori Maruyama, PhD | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan |
| Victoria S. Meadows, PhD | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Michael A. Meyer, PhD | NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA |
| Carolyn Porco, PhD | University of California Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Richard Quinn, PhD | SETI Institute Carl Sagan Center, Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Sean N. Raymond, PhD | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France |
| Antigona Segura, PhD | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Mark A. Sephton, PhD | Imperial College, London, United Kingdom |
| Seth Shostak, PhD | SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Helga Stan-Lotter, PhD | Institute of Genetics and General Biology, Salzburg, Austria |
| Carol Stoker, PhD | NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA |
| Roger E. Summons, PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Inge L. ten Kate, PhD | Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Feng Tian, PhD | Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| Hikaru Yabuta, PhD | Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan |