This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question: "What distinguishes living organisms from the non-living ...
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This volume is a compilation of articles that summarize the most recent results in meteor, meteoroid and related fields presented ...
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This book describes how the basic building blocks of life, the amino acids, formed. After a comprehensible introduction into ...
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proposes a framework for assessing countries’ levels of compliance with international space law and norms. It begins by ...
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Up to now, we do not have a generally accepted theory about the origin of life and about the process of development of life, ...
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At the core of the technical chapters is the FREZCHEM model, initially developed over many years by one of the authors to ...
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The Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, fifth Edition, is the official reference for the field of the IAU, which serves as ...
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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Fifth Edition, is the official reference for the field of the IAU, which serves as the ...
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From Fossils to Astrobiology reviews developments in paleontology and geobiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field ...
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This book has resulted from a workshop at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland (5-9 September ...
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This book addresses the possible origins, development and fate of intelligent life in the universe. The author presents a ...
Continue readingThis book provides a comprehensive toolbox of analysis techniques for ionospheric multi-satellite missions. The immediate ...
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Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...
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Life As we Know It ["LAKI"] covers several aspects of Life, ranging from the prebiotic level, origin of life, evolution ...
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Energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats -- the basic elements of living systems - define the opportunities and limitations ...
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Lights in the Sky is a truly comprehensive guide to observing, identifying, and imaging sky glows and other unusual atmospheric/astronomical ...
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This interdisciplinary book probes the subject of extraterrestrial intelligent life, offering scientific and technological ...
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This volume provides an excellent introduction to the study of extreme soil micro-biology, and a variety of the challenging ...
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Solar radiation data is important for a wide range of applications, e.g. in engineering, agriculture, health sector, and ...
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The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. With masses comparable ...
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