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Amino acid analyses of Antarctic CM2 meteorites using liquid chromatography-time of flight-mass spectrometry

scholarly article

Amino acid analyses of type 3 chondrites Colony, Ornans, Chainpur, and Bishunpur

scholarly article

Amino acid composition, petrology, geochemistry, 14C terrestrial age and oxygen isotopes of the Shişr 033 CR chondrite

scholarly article

Amino acids in Antarctic CM1 meteorites and their relationship to other carbonaceous chondrites

scholarly article

Analysis and survival of amino acids in Martian regolith analogs

scholarly article

Analysis of mineral matrices of planetary soil analogues from the Utah Desert

scientific article published on 11 March 2011

Astrobiology and habitability studies in preparation for future Mars missions: trends from investigating minerals, organics and biota

scientific article published on 12 May 2011

Astrobiology and the Possibility of Life on Earth and Elsewhere…

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Biomass preservation in impact melt ejecta

scientific article (publication date: 10 November 2013)

Carbonaceous Material in Extra-terrestrial Matter

scientific article published in August 2015

Chemical composition of carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu from synchrotron spectroscopy in the mid- to far-infrared of Hayabusa2-returned samples

scholarly article

Concerns of Organic Contamination for Sample Return Space Missions

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

Contamination analysis of Arctic ice samples as planetary field analogs and implications for future life-detection missions to Europa and Enceladus

scientific article published in 2022

Detection of Organic Matter and Biosignatures in Space Missions

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Earth as a Tool for Astrobiology—A European Perspective

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Effects of UV-organic interaction and martian conditions on the survivability of organics

Extraction of amino acids from soils close to the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), Utah

scientific article published on 17 January 2011

Extraterrestrial Amino Acids

scientific article published on 28 December 2010

Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite

scientific article published in June 2008

Field astrobiology research in Moon–Mars analogue environments: instruments and methods

scientific article published on 14 March 2011

Fluorescence spectroscopy for the detection of life in the Salten Skov Mars regolith analogue

scientific article published in August 2012

Free dicarboxylic and aromatic acids in the carbonaceous chondrites Murchison and Orgueil

scholarly article

Habitability on planetary surfaces: interdisciplinary preparation phase for future Mars missions

scientific article published on 30 July 2009

In situ biomarkers and the Life Marker Chip

Inconclusive evidence for nonterrestrial isoleucine enantiomeric excesses in primitive meteorites

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

Influence of mineralogy on the preservation of amino acids under simulated Mars conditions

scientific article published in October 2016

Interaction of organic compounds with chondritic silicate surfaces. Atomistic insights from quantum chemical periodic simulations

scientific article published on 6 July 2017

Joint Europa Mission (JEM): a multi-scale study of Europa to characterize its habitability and search for extant life

Macromolecular organic matter in samples of the asteroid (162173) Ryugu

scholarly article

Mars on Earth: soil analogues for future Mars missions

scientific article published in April 2008

Microbial Communities in Sediments From Four Mildly Acidic Ephemeral Salt Lakes in the Yilgarn Craton (Australia) - Terrestrial Analogs to Ancient Mars

article

Molecular Chirality in Meteorites and Interstellar Ices, and the Chirality Experiment on Board the ESA Cometary Rosetta Mission

scientific article published on 27 November 2014

Moonraker: Enceladus Multiple Flyby Mission

scientific article published in December 2022

Organic Chemistry of Carbonaceous Meteorites

scientific article published in February 2011

Organic Matter in the Solar System—Implications for Future on-Site and Sample Return Missions

Organic geochemistry of late Jurassic paleosols (Dirt Beds) of Dorset, UK

scientific article published in November 2012

Organic host analogues and the search for life on Mars

scientific article published on 19 August 2010

Organic molecules in meteorites

scientific article published in August 2015

Origin of the Genetic Code and Abiotic Synthesis of Organic Compounds

scientific article published in 2012

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and amino acids in meteorites and ice samples from LaPaz Icefield, Antarctica

scholarly article

Presolar Stardust in Asteroid Ryugu

scholarly article

Quantitative enantioseparation of amino acids by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography applied to non-terrestrial samples

scientific article published in February 2016

Shock synthesis of amino acids from impacting cometary and icy planet surface analogues

scientific article published on 15 September 2013

Space as a Tool for Astrobiology: Review and Recommendations for Experimentations in Earth Orbit and Beyond

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Spectrofluorometric analysis of amino acid mixtures: Implications for future space missions

scientific article published in January 2012

The Amino Acid Distribution in Laboratory Analogs of Extraterrestrial Organic Matter: A Comparison to CM Chondrites

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Comet Interceptor Mission

scientific article published in 2024

The Nitrogen Heterocycle Content of Meteorites and Their Significance for the Origin of Life

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

The ORGANICS experiment on BIOPAN V: UV and space exposure of aromatic compounds

scientific article published in March 2007

The amino acid and hydrocarbon contents of the Paris meteorite: Insights into the most primitive CM chondrite

scholarly article

The fifth UK Astrobiology Conference (ASB5)

scientific article published in April 2014

Triple F—a comet nucleus sample return mission

scientific article published on 7 August 2008

Type IV Kerogens as Analogues for Organic Macromolecular Materials in Aqueously Altered Carbonaceous Chondrites

scientific article published on 03 April 2013

UV to far-IR reflectance spectra of carbonaceous chondrites – I. Implications for remote characterization of dark primitive asteroids targeted by sample-return missions

scientific article published on 6 November 2013