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• Tables of Contents service for Advances in Space Research , ISSN 0273-1177
• Tables of Contents service for COSPAR Information BulletinISSN 0045-8732
• Tables of Contents service forPlanetary and Space Science, ISSN 0032-0633
• An Exobiological Strategy for Mars Exploration, January 1995 from the NASA ARC Center for Mars Exploration
• An Integrated Strategy for the Planetary Sciences 1995-2010 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Space Studies Board (SSB) Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX)
• Bioastronomy News The official publication of the International Astronomical Union's Commission 51, the research organization devoted to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
• Sky and Telescope News Bulletin
• Icarus: The International Journal of Solar System Exploration

• "The Origin of Life on Earth", by Leslie E. Orgel . Growing evidence supports the idea that the emergence of catalytic RNA was a crucial early step. How that RNA came into being remains unknown.
• "Life in the Quantun Universe", by Steven Weinberg We comprehend the Universe and our place in it. But there are limits to what we can explain at present. Will research at the boundaries of science reveal a special role for intelligent life?
• "The Evolution of Life on Earth", by Stephen Jay Gould. The history of life is not necessarily progressive; it is certainly not predictable. The earth's creatures have evolved through a series of contingent and fortuitous events.
• "The Emergence of Intelligence", by William H. Calvin . Language, foresight, musical skills and other hallmarks of intelligence are connected through an underlying facility that enhances rapid movements.
• "The Outer Reaches of Life", by John Postgate. What are the absolute pre-requisites for our kind of life?
• " The Origin of Life on Earth An African Creation Myth". A children's book.

• Exploring for a Martian Fossil Record at NASA JSC
• Bacteria: Fossil Record at UC Berkeley
• Microbiologist Brings Ancient Bacteria Back to Life from California Polytechnic State University
• Microfossils On Mars from NASA ARC
• Journal Of Paleolimnology at the University of Manitoba
• Paleolakes on Mars - Robert Wharton et al.
• 22 March 1994: NASA Develops Plan to Search for Martian Fossils NASA Press Release

Is there life on (under) Europa?

Is there life on Titan?

Is there life on (or from) Comets?

• Small Bodies from Bill Arnett's " The Nine Planets"
• Stardust Homepage at JPL: A Discovery Mission to Comet Wild-2
• Stardust page at Space Data Resources and Information
• Comets as contributors to water, other volatiles, and organic compounds on planets

• A descrption of Galileo's encounter with earth, viewed as an experiment to see if we could detect life on a similar planet using similar instrumentation. Reference to Carl Sagan's book "The Pale Blue Dot" and his chapter on this topic.
• A Farwell to Earth from the Galileo Homepage at JPL

Government Resources

• Space Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center; Exobiology Branch
• Exobiology Program at NASA ARC
• Exobiology Strategy Document at NASA ARC
• Earth Science and Solar System Exploration Division at NASA Johnson Space Center
• The Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems (ExNPS) at JPL

• The 2111 Foundation for Exploration
  
• The Case for Mars at the University of Colorado Boulder
• Center for Mars Exploration at NASA ARC
  
• CSEOL The Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life at UCLA.
• Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
• DSES Deep Space Exploration Society
  
• First Millennial Foundation
  
• International Society for Evolutionary Protistology (ISEP)
• NSS National Space Society
  
• NSCORT in Exobiology at The University of California at San Diego
• The Planetary Society
• SEDS Students for the Exploration and Development of Space