Astrobiology: Websites

The magazine of the National Space Society.

Astrobiology Magazine is a NASA-sponsored online popular science magazine. Published stories profile the latest and most exciting news across the wide and interdisciplinary field of astrobiology — the study of life in the universe. In addition to original content, Astrobiology Magazine also runs content from non-NASA sources in order to provide our readers with a broad knowledge of developments in astrobiology, and from institutions both nationally and internationally.

A timely news aggregator.

A study guide for students in ASTR 1210: Life in the Universe, a course offered by the University of Virginia.

The Astronomy Society of the Pacific offers this podcast which features Dr. Chris McKay from the NASA Ames Research Center.

A free online course offered through the University of Illinois.

The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia.

Huge collection of links to sites including astronomy history, news, organizations, research, tools/utilities, and much more.

The Kepler Mission is specifically designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover dozens of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets.

An article from the New Scientist.

An overview of the field of astrobiology.

A list of undergraduate and graduate programs focused on the study of astrobiology.

Offers detailed information on Mars, programs and missions focused on the "Red Planet," and updated news sources.

Provides access to aerospace-related citations, full-text online documents, images and videos – scientific and technical information (STI) created or funded by NASA. The Subject Terms and Concept Cloud are nice search features that can help you focus your topic.

This site illustrates how astronomers find extra-solar planets by observing periodic variations in the Doppler shifts of the spectral lines of the star.

Science.gov lets you search over 55 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 2100 scientific websites.

An interactive site providing in-depth details about our solar system; from NASA.

Relevant resources from the University of Washington Astrobiology department.