Research gap
A research opportunity connected to missing evidence, methods, datasets, validation, or translation.
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The first accepted evidence set for Ocean Worlds Astrobiology includes 12 papers. Evidence currently spans 2024 to 2026. Methods represented in the accepted evidence include Viability assays, Interior evolution modeling, Atmospheric escape framework. The most specific unresolved gap is unresolved evidence gap around focus on outgassing signatures. Paper intelligence specifically flags: Focus on outgassing signatures; Knowledge derived from current observations; Sparse data for Titan returned by space missions. This gap should be tracked as topic memory, paper intelligence, and future accepted evidence mature.
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White Paper on Phototrophic Biosignatures: Research Priorities for the Search for Life on Other Worlds
Nancy Y. Kiang; Christopher Gisriel; Robert E. Blankenship; Mary N. Parenteau; Hazel A. Barton; Oded Béjà; Anthony J. Burnetti; Ligia F. Coelho; Saleheh Ebadirad; Nathan M. Ennist; Yuka Fujii; Colin Gates; R. J. Graham; Keiichi Inoue; Betül Kaçar; Yu Komatsu; Émilie A. Laflèche; Nicoletta La Rocca; Elisabetta Liistro; Jonathan Lindsey; Timothy Lyons; Carolina A. Martinez-Gutierrez; Taro Matsuo; Victoria Meadows; Gary F. Moore; Massimo Olivucci; Kevin E. Redding; Edward W. Schwieterman; Tejinder Singh; Kenji Takizawa; Anna Grace Ulses; Junko Yano; Felisa Wolfe-Simon; Michael L. Wong; Anastasia G. Yanchilina · 2026
A framework for evaluating biosignature potential against the abiotic baseline on ocean worlds
Peter M. Higgins; Weibin Chen; Oliver Warr; Lucas M. Fifer; Wanying Kang; Charles S. Cockell; Barbara Sherwood Lollar · 2026
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Active moons in our Solar System and beyond -- Io, Europa, Enceladus, Triton, and exomoons
Caroline Haslebacher; Emeline Bolmont; Marco Cilibrasi; Jonathan Grone; Nico Haslebacher; Ravit Helled; Mathilde Kervazo; Niels F. W. Ligterink; Christophe Lovis; Lucio Mayer; Lorenzo Obersnel; Rafael Ottersberg; Apurva V. Oza; C. H. Lucas Patty; Antoine Pommerol; Ganna Portyankina; Alyssa R. Rhoden; Leander Schlarmann; Yuhito Shibaike; Vishaal Singh; Audrey H. Vorburger; Peter Wurz · 2026
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