Skip to content

Meetings, Activities, and Workshops

Recent Ocean Worlds Research Publications

Ewert, M., Nunn, B. L., Firth, E., & Junge, K., Metabolic Responses, Cell Recoverability, and Protein Signatures of Three Extremophiles: Sustained Life During Long-Term Subzero Incubations. Microorganisms (2025), 13(2), 251 

Gentilhomme, A. S., Dhakar, K., Timmins-Schiffman, E., Chaw, M., Firth, E., Junge, K., & Nunn, B. L., Proteomic Insights into Psychrophile Growth in Perchlorate-Amended Subzero Conditions: Implications for Martian Life Detection. Astrobiology (2025)

Vitkova, A., Vu, T. and Lambert, J., Extended Longevity Photoactivated Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Detection of Biosignatures on Icy Worlds and Martian Polar Caps, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy (2025)

J. Bonigk et al. 2026. Identifying Amino Acid Isomers with Mass Spectrometry on Icy Ocean Moons. Astrobiology, Vol. 26, Iss. 5. https://doi.org/10.1177/15311074261443835

J. Marlow. The Dark Frontier, Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea, Random House, 2026. 

L.E.Moore, et al. 2026.  Characterizing the unique chemical imprint of on-axis, lower temperature hydrothermal flow to the deep ocean (Southern East Pacific Rise, 16.5-18.0°S).  Geophys. Res. Lett. 53, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL120412, 2026.

Nixon, C. et al., (2026). Terrestrial Analogs to Titan for Geophysical Research. Reviews of Geophysics, 64, e2025RG000909. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025RG000909.

Schurmeier, L. et al., (2026). Shallow Impact Craters Suggest Titan Stores Methane in an Insulating Clathrate Crust. Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, 131(5), e2025JE009629.

Schurmeier, L. and Fagents, S., 2025. Titan's Lithospheric Strength Envelope and Brittle-Ductile Transition: The Importance of Crustal Pore Fluids, Organics, and Clathrates. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 130(9), https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009118.

Wakita, S., et al (2026). A youthful Titan implied by improved impact simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 53(3), e2025GL116041.

Other NASA RCNs