The University of Washington's graduate certificate program enables students to obtain the interdepartmental background necessary. Focus is on Earth's extreme microbial environments.

Studies the history of life on earth as well as the role the biota continue to play in shaping modern environments.

Located in the Astrophysics Branch of the Space Sciences Division at NASA's Ames Research Center. Specializes in the study of extraterrestrial materials and their analogs.

An online guide to the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the Universe as well as all other aspects of space exploration.

TERC and NASA are developing an interdisciplinary, year-long course for middle and high school students using astrobiology as its unifying, underlying structure.

PSARC's primary mission is to conduct multidisciplinary research and education in Astrobiology as a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

A brief overview of creation of the universe and origins of life in our solar system.

Explores events that led to the origin of life on earth.

The NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training at the New York Center for Studies of the Origins of Life. A partnership with RPI and SUNY-Albany.

The NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training in Gravitational Biology is a partnership with UCSD, Scripps, and Salk Institutes. It aims to advance the basic understanding of plant gravitational biology using an integrated molecular, biochemical, and physiological approach.

An experimental page part of the MIT Net Advance project. Includes research and review articles, and offline as well as online materials.

This program at JPL seeks to answer the fundamental questions about the Universe: Where do we come from? Are we alone?

A partnership between NASA and other research organizations to conduct and lead integrated multidisciplinary research in astrobiology, the study of life in the universe.

Science@NASA article on an experiment designed for students of all ages to investigate life in extreme environments and to learn about the possibilities for life elsewhere in the Solar System.

Explores the field of exobiology from a lay perspective including a self-test. Part of the Cruising Chemistry project at Duke.

NASA Astrobiology Institute founding member located at the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Researches and teaches "biology with a global perspective."

An educational site based on a textbook that follows the evolution of the Universe "from big bang to humankind." Hosted by the Wright Center at Tufts University.

The modern version of panspermia, Cosmic Ancestry treats all of evolution, not just the origin of life on Earth.

Gives examples of microbes that survive the vacuum of space. Discusses Neo-Darwinism.

A private, nonprofit organization engaged in basic research and advanced education in biology, astronomy, and the earth sciences. Part of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

The Centre aims to combine the expertise of astronomers, biochemists, and microbiologists to enable us to answer the age-old question: where did we come from?

Based at University of New South Wales, the centre includes astrobiologists from around Australia. The ACA is Australia's international member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.