Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

Original Research

Accepted on 20 Aug 2025

The potential of far-red light-acclimating cyanobacteria to support sustainable outposts on Mars

in Astrobiology

Isabel Santos De Sousa
Giorgia Di Stefano
Andrea D'Agostino
Costanza Maria Martella
Antonio Chirico
Gabriele Rigano
Loredana Santo
Daniela Billi

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1658632

175 views

Original Research

Accepted on 13 Aug 2025

Local-NPDR: A Novel Variable Importance Method for Explainable Machine Learning and False Discovery Diagnosis for Ocean Worlds Biosignatures

in Astrobiology

Lily A Clough
Jonathan Major
Lauren M Seyler
Victoria Da Poian
Bethany Theiling
Brett A McKinney

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1651953

346 views

Editorial

Published on 06 Jun 2025

Editorial: Exploring frontiers: astroparticle, space science and public health for future crewed space missions

in Astrobiology

Alessandro Bartoloni
Gianluca Cavoto
Cristina Consolandi
Nan Ding
Christopher D. Porada
Feng Ru Tang
Lidia Strigari

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1634483

1,340 views

Review

Published on 21 May 2025

Multiscale astrobiology with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

in Astrobiology

Andjelka B. Kovačević
Nigel J. Mason
Aleksandra Ćiprijanović

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1594485

2,787 views

Brief Research Report

Published on 01 May 2025

Protection of liposomes by ferric salts against the UV damage and its implications for the origin of life

in Astrobiology

Ben Turner
Kevin Wu
Gennady Fiksel
Vladimir Subbotin

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1566396

1,954 views

Review

Published on 19 Mar 2025

An exploration of origin of life for exoplanetary science

in Astrobiology

Finnegan Keller
Tiffany Kataria
Laura M. Barge
Pin Chen
Yuk Yung
Jessica M. Weber

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1544426

3,691 views

Original Research

Published on 25 Feb 2025

The search for ancient life on Mars using morphological and mass spectrometric analysis: an analog study in detecting microfossils in Messinian gypsum

in Astrobiology

Youcef Sellam
Salome Gruchola
Marek Tulej
Peter Keresztes Schmidt
Andreas Riedo
Sofiane Meddane
Peter Wurz

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1503042

5,626 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 06 Feb 2025

Application of chemotactic behavior for life detection

in Astrobiology

Max Riekeles
Vincent Bruder
Nicholas Adams
Berke Santos
Dirk Schulze-Makuch

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2024.1490090

4,116 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 23 Oct 2024

Grapevines grown from canes having spent 10 months in space: study of their downy mildew susceptibility

in Astrobiology

David Taillis
Aleksandra Burdziej
Charlyne Bautista
Ferdinand W. M. Haag
Michael Lebert
Stéphanie Cluzet

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2024.1415376

1,893 views

Original Research

Published on 16 Sep 2024

Phosphorus availability from olivine for biospheres

in Astrobiology

Josh Abbatiello
John E. Henson
Matthew Pasek

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2024.1441187

1,571 views

Perspective

Published on 23 Aug 2024

Discriminating between extinct and extant life detection: implications for future Mars missions

in Astrobiology

Katherine A. Dzurilla
Bronwyn L. Teece

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2024.1452362

2,377 views

Review

Published on 14 Aug 2024

Icy ocean worlds - astrobiology research in Germany

in Astrobiology

Fabian Klenner
Mickael Baqué
Kristina Beblo-Vranesevic
Janine Bönigk
Marc S. Boxberg
Bernd Dachwald
Ilya Digel
Andreas Elsaesser
Clemens Espe
Oliver Funke

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2024.1422898

7,182 views
2 citations

Original Research

Published on 21 May 2024

Taphonomy of biosignatures in carbonate nodules from the Mars-analog Qaidam Basin: constraints from microscopic, spectroscopic, and geochemical analyses

in Astrobiology

Yan Chen
Zongjun Yin
Wei Lin

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2024.1291847

1,782 views
1 citation

Review

Published on 10 Apr 2024

Source of phosphine on Venus—An unsolved problem

in Astrobiology

William Bains
Sara Seager
David L. Clements
Jane S. Greaves
Paul B. Rimmer
Janusz J. Petkowski

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2024.1372057

6,322 views
6 citations

Editorial

Published on 08 Mar 2024

Editorial: Presentations at the 2022 MELiSSA conference—current and future ways to closed life support systems

in Astrobiology

Luigi Gennaro Izzo
Jean-Pierre Paul de Vera
Cyprien Verseux

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2024.1394073

4,056 views

Opinion

Published on 07 Mar 2024

The use of RNA-seq for the study of physiological adaptations of halophiles in extreme environments for astrobiological data interpretation

in Astrobiology

Chhandak Basu
Scott M. Perl

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2024.1342694

5,657 views
1 citation