Astrobiology: Bibliography
General aspects
John Bally and Bo Reipurth, The Birth of Stars and Planets, Cambridge UP, 2006
Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen, Andrew Chaikin (eds), The New Solar System, 4th edition, Sky
Publishing Corp/Cambridge UP, 1999
Michel Cassé, Stellar Alchemy: The Celestial Origin of Atoms, Cambridge UP, 2003
Stuart Clark, Extrasolar Planets: The Search for New Worlds, Wiley-Praxis, 1998
Ken Crosswell, Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems, Oxford UP, 1999
T Encrenaz, J-P Bibring, M Blanc, The Solar System, Springer, 2nd edition, 1995
Mark A Garlick, The Story of the Solar System, Cambridge UP, 2002
Ronald Greeley & Raymond Batson, The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System, Cambridge UP,
2001
Donald Goldsmith, Worlds Unnumbered: The Search for Extrasolar Planets, University Science Books,
1997
John Gribbin, Stardust, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 2000
John S Lewis, Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System, Academic Press, 1997
Katharina Lodders and Bruce Fegley, Jr., The Planetary Scientist’s Companion, Oxford UP, 1998
Michel Mayor and Pierre-Yves Frei, New Worlds in the Cosmos: The Discovery of Exoplanets,
Cambridge UP, 2003
Neil McBride and Iain Gilmour, An Introduction to the Solar System, Open University/Cambridge UP,
2004
Richard P Wayne, Chemistry of Atmospheres, Oxford UP, 3rd ed, 2000
John A Wood and Sherwood Chang (eds), The Cosmic History of the Biogenic Elements and
compounds, NASA SP-476, 1985
Gareth Wynn-Williams, The Fullness of Space: Nebulae, stardust and the interstellar medium,
Cambridge UP, 1992
Yuk L Yung and William B. DeMore, Photochemistry of Planetary Atmospheres, Oxford UP, 1999
Origin, evolution and nature of life on Earth
A G Cairns-Smith, Genetic Takeover and the mineral origins of life, Cambridge UP, 1982
Melvin Calvin, Chemical Evolution: Molecular Evolution towards the origin of Living Systems on Earth
and Elsewhere, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1969
Angela Colling, Nancy Dise, Peter Francis, Nigel Harris and Chris Wilson, The Dynamic Earth, OU,
S269 Earth and Life Book Two, Edition 1.2, 1997, 2001
Peter Francis & Nancy Dise, Atmosphere, Earth and Life, OU, S269 Earth and Life Book Three, Edition
1.1, 1997
Iain Gilmour, Ian Wright and John Wright, Origins of Earth and Life, OU, S269 Earth and Life Book
One, Edition 1.1, 1997
James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, Oxford UP, 1982, 2000
James Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of our living Earth, Oxford UP, 1989
Lyn Margulis, The Symbiotic Planet: A New look at Evolution, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998
Stephen F Mason, Chemical Evolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992
John W Moore and Elizabeth A Moore, Environmental Chemistry, Academic Press, 1976
Steven Rose, The Chemistry of Life, Penguin, 3rd edition, 1991
Scientific American, Life: Origin and Evolution, W H Freeman, 1978
Peter Skelton, Bob Spicer and Allister Rees, Evolving Life and the Earth, OU, S269 Earth and Life Book
Four, Edition 1.1, 1997
John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry, The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origins of
Language, Oxford UP, 1999
Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada, The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup, Oxford UP, 2001
Astrobiology – Historical aspects
J D Bernal, The Origin of Life, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967
William Graves Hoyt, Lowell and Mars, University of Arizona Press, 1976
R A S Hennessey, Worlds Without End: The historic search for extraterrestrial life, Tempus Publishing,
1999
Francis Jackson and Patrick Moore, Life on Mars, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965
Robert Markley, Dying Planet: Mars in Science and in the Imagination, Duke UP, 2005
Patrick Moore, Venus, Cassell, 2002
Patrick Moore, On Mars, Cassell, 1998
Patrick Moore and Francis Jackson, Life in the Universe, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962
A I Oparin, Origin of Life, Dover, 1953 (Reprint of the original 1938 edition)
R A Proctor, Other Worlds than ours: The Plurality of Worlds studied under the Light of recent
scientific Researches, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1886
William Sheehan, The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery, University of Arizona
Press, 1996
Walter Sullivan, We Are Not alone: The Search for Intelligent Life on Other Worlds, Hodder and
Stoughton, 1965
Astrobiology – General
R T Arrieta, From the Atacama to Makalu: A journey to extreme environments on Earth and beyond,
Cocqi Press, 1997
Paul Clancy, Andre Brack & Gerda Horneck, Looking for Life Searching the Solar System, Cambridge
UP, 2005
Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart, What does a Martian look like? The science of extraterrestrial life, Ebury
Press, 2004
Paul Davies, Are we alone? Implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial life, Penguin, 1995
Iain Gilmour & Mark Sephton (ed), An Introduction to Astrobiology, The Open University/Cambridge
UP, 2004
Jean Heidmann, Life in the Universe, McGraw-Hill Horizons of Science, 1992
David Koerner and Simon LeVay, Here be dragons: The scientific quest for extraterrestrial life, Oxford
UP, 2000
Bruce Jakosky, The Search for Life on other Planets, Cambridge UP, 1998
Barry Parker, Alien life: The search for extraterrestrials and beyond, Perseus Books, 1998
Robert Shapiro, Planetary dreams: The quest to discover life beyond the Earth, John Wiley & Sons,
1999
Seth Shostak and Alex Barnett, Cosmic company: The Search for life in the Universe, Cambridge UP,
2003
Paul J Thomas, Christopher F Chyba and Christopher P McKay (eds), Comets and the Origin and
Evolution of Life, Springer, 1997
Woodruff T Sullivan III and John A Baross (eds), Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of
Astrobiology, Cambridge UP, 2007
Panspermia and related topics
Fred Hoyle and N C Wickramasinghe, Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe, J M Dent, 1978
Fred Hoyle and N C Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space, Paladin/Granada, 1983
Life on Mars
Joseph M Boyce, The Smithsonian Book of Mars, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002
Barrie E DiGregorio, Gilbert V Levin and Partricia Ann Straat, Mars The Living Planet, Frog, 1997
Donald Goldsmith, The Hunt for Life on Mars, Dutton/Penguin, 1997
Anders Hansson, Mars and the Development of Life, Wiley-Praxis, 2nd edition, 1997
Julian Hiscox (ed), The Search for Life on Mars, Proceedings of 1st UK conference 11 November 1998,
BIS, 1999
Colin Pillinger, Beagle: From sailing ship to Mars spacecraft, XNP Productions, 2003
Malcolm Walter, The Search for Life on Mars, Perseus Publishing, 1999
Titan
Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton, Lifting Titan’s Veil: Exploring the giant moon of Saturn,
Cambridge UP, 2002
The Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Edward Ashpole, The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Blandford, 1989
Ben Bova and Byron Preiss (ed), First contact: The Search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Headline,
1991
Jean Heidmann, Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Cambridge UP, 1995
Bernard M Oliver, John Billingham et al, Project Cyclops: A design study of a system for detecting
extraterrestrial intelligent life, NASA CR 114445, Revised edition 7/73
Edward Regis Jr (ed), Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence, Cambridge UP, 1987
Carl Sagan (ed), Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence CETI, MIT Press, 1973
I S Shklovskii and Carl Sagan, Intelligent life in the Universe, Picador, 1977
Ben Zuckerman and Michael H Hart (ed), Extraterrestrials: Where are they?, Cambridge UP, 2nd ed,
1995
Periodicals
International Journal of Astrobiology, Cambridge UP
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
Planetary Report, The Planetary Society
Occasional articles on astrobiology and related subjects also appear in popular astronomy
publications, including Astronomy Now, Astronomy and Sky & Telescope.