Alternative Earths team members recently published a paper to 'Astrobiology,' considering the potential for false negatives, biospheres that are not evident in detecting a planet's atmosphere. Chris Reinhard, Stephanie Olson, Eddie Schwieterman and Tim Lyons led a study using geochemical proxies, in combination with Earth-system models, to look at terrestrial biosignatures as an analogy for...

NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Eddie Schwieterman (UC Riverside), hosted 'Alien Planets,' the last talk of the 2016-2017 Science Lecture Series at UCR Palm Desert Center, on Thursday evening. Schwieterman, an astrobiologist, discussed the concept of exoplanets, and how their atmospheres can help us detect life beyond our solar system.