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Astrobiology, discovery, and societal impact

Steven J. Dick, Author | [S.l.] : Cambridge University Press | 2018

New discoveries in astrobiology, including thousands of planets around distant stars, have increased the likelihood of finding life beyond Earth. Astronomer and historian Steven J. Dick examines the philosophical, theological, and societal impli[...]

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From habitability to life on mars

Nathalie A. Cabrol, Editor ; Edmond A. Grin, Author | [S.l.] : Elsevier | 2018

From Habitability to Life on Mars 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. I[...]

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What we know about extraterrestrial intelligence : foundations of xenology

Michael Ashkenazi, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Space and Society | 2017

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 dis[...]

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Report of the Europa Lander science definition team

K.P. Hand, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 2017

This report focuses on the science of a mission concept for landing on the surface of Europa. The first seven chapters of this report detail the science, and science considerations, of the mission concept. Chapters 8, 9, and 10 then go into deta[...]

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Making contact : Jill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence /

Sarah Scoles, Author | New York : First Pegasus books edition | 2017

"Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren't encouraged to do much outside the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could -- into the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. And she [...]

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Exobiologists, rocketeers, and engineers

Rick Eyerdam, Author | Mustang : Tate publishing | 2016

The book details the challenges faced by the NASA engineers with the rise of the exobiologists who had no laboratory and no way to conduct scientific research unless they could get a ride on a spaceship. Just what NASA needed since its legacy in[...]

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Waiting for contact : the search for extraterrestrial intelligence /

Lawrence Squeri, Author | [S.l.] : University Press of Florida | 2016

Imagine a network of extraterrestrials in radio contact with each other across the universe, superior beings who hail from advanced civilisations quadrillions of miles away, just waiting for Earth to tune in. Some people believe it's only a matt[...]

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SEDNA: planetary protection in missions to icy moons : analysis and technology roadmap

Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University | 2016

In recent years the astrobiology community has become increasingly interested in the environmental conditions of icy moons in the Solar System, such as Enceladus, Titan, and Ganymede. It is believed that on several of these moons there are the t[...]

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NASA astrobiology strategy

Lindsay Hays | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 2015

This science strategy identifies questions to guide and inspire astrobiology research on each of these topics—in the lab, in the field, and in experiments flown on planetary science missions—over the next decade. The strategy also identifies maj[...]

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The impact of discovering life beyond Earth

Steven J. Dick, Editor | [S.l.] : Cambridge University Press | 2015

In this volume, distinguished philosophers, theologians, anthropologists, historians and scientists discuss the big questions about how the discovery of extraterrestrial life, whether intelligent or microbial, would impact society. Their remarka[...]

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Archaeology, anthropology, and interstellar communication /

Douglas A. Vakoch, Editor | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | NASA History Series | 2014

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Extraterrestrial altruism : evolution and ethics in the cosmos /

Douglas A. Vakoch, Editor | New York : Springer Science and Business Media | Frontiers collection | 2014

The book examines the basic assumption of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): that extraterrestrials will be tranmitting messages to us for our benefit.

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Archaeology, anthropology, and interstellar communication /

Douglas A. Vakoch, Editor | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | NASA History Series | 2014

Are we alone? asks the writeup on the back cover of the dust jacket. The contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extrate[...]

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Five billion years of solitude : the search for life among the stars /

Lee Billings, Author | New York (United States) : Current | 2013

An intimate history of Earth and the quest for life beyond the solar system traces the discoveries of thousands of "exoplanets" throughout the past two years, including some with Earth-like characteristics that could possibly support life

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Are we being watched? : the search for life in the cosmos /

Paul Murdin, Author | [S.l.] : Thames and Hudson | 2013

Murdin invites readers to join him in exploring an extraordinary array of evidence on how life developed on Earth, and how it could have developed on other planets. He examines who forms it might take, and how likely we are to be able to communi[...]

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Weird life : the search for life that is very, very different from our own /

David M. Toomey, Author | [S.l.] : W. W. Norton & Company | 2013

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How likely is extraterrestrial life?

J. Woods Halley, Author | New York, NY : Springer | SpringerBriefs in astronomy, ISSN 2191-9100 | 2012

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Alien life imagined : Communicating the science and culture of Astrobiology /

Mark Brake, Author | [S.l.] : Cambridge University Press | 2012

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Astrolinguistics : design of a linguistic system for interstellar communication based on logic /

Alexander Ollongren, Author | New York, NY : Springer | 2012

In linguistics, one of the main areas of modern research involves the capabilities and possibilities of there being "lingua cosmica", a LINCOS, a universal language that could be used to cummonicate with non- human intelligences. This book touc[...]

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Beyond the stars : our origins and the search for life in the universe /

Paolo Saraceno, Author ; David L. Goodstein, Author | Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub. | 2012

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The living cosmos : our search for life in the universe

Chris Impey | [S.l.] : Random House | 2011

Astrobiology, the study of life in space, is one of today's fastest growing fields of science. In this accessible and elegantly reasoned book, scholar and researcher Impey explores the foundations of this rapidly developing discipline, where it'[...]

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Civilizations beyond earth : extraterrestrial life and society

Douglas A. Vakoch, Editor ; Albert A. Harrison, Editor | New York : Berghahn Books | 2011

How will humankind respond to first contact? Archaeologists and astronomers explore the likehood that extraterrestrial intelligence exists, sociologists present the latest findings of novel surveys, tapping into the public's attitudes about lif[...]

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The case for Mars : the plan to settle the red planet and why we must /

Robert M. Zubrin, Author ; Richard Wagner, Author | [S.l.] : The Free Press | 2011

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Avatar

James Cameron, Producer | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2010

Jake Sully is a former Marine who uses a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that[...]

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The eerie silence : are we alone in the universe

Paul Davies | [S.l.] : Allen Lane | 2010

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The eerie silence : are we alone in the universe

Paul Davies | [S.l.] : Allen Lane | 2010

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Terraforming : the creating of habitable worlds

Martin Beech | New York, NY : Springer | Astronomers' universe | 2009

This book proposes a sound and realistic exploration on the topic of terraforming. Often used as the narrative premise in science fiction novels, terraforming is the process by which an uninhabitable planet might be converted into one capable o[...]

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Exposing U.S. government policies on extraterrestrial life : the challenge of exopolitics

Michael E. Salla, Author | Kealakekua, Hawaii : Exopolitics Institute | 2009

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District 9

Peter Jackson, Producer | United States : Tri-Star Pictures | 2009

Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like [...]

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Confessions of an alien hunter : a scientist's search for extraterrestrial intelligence

G. Seth Shostak, Author | [S.l.] : National Geographic Society | 2009

Describes the historical and current search for signs of extraterrestrial life in the universe, discussing the technology presently being used and speculating on the probability of success in the near future.

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