This week we have 22 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!

Artificial Life

ALIFE ISAL 2025 Complete Proceedings PDF
Witkowski et al.

Astrobiology

Current opinions and trends in the search for extrasolar photosynthesis
Alexandrov et al. — New Astronomy Reviews

Responsible Discovery in Astrobiology: Lessons from Four Controversial Claims
Bibas et al. — preprint

Planetary Impacts: Friend or Foe?
Black et al. — Astrobiology

A First Order Filter for the Detection of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
Dabhade et al. — preprint

Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu
Furukawa et al. — Nature Geoscience

Lake Stars as an Earth Analog for Europa’s Manannán Crater Spider Feature
Keown et al. — The Planetary Science Journal

Astrochemistry

A Detection of Sulfur-Bearing Cyclic Hydrocarbons in Space
Araki et al. — preprint

The role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in astrochemical modeling at different evolutionary stages of cold dense cloud cores
Ge et al. — Astronomy & Astrophysics

Photoactive elemental sulfur allotropes promote extensive ammonia synthesis in Venus-like atmosphere
Li et al. — Nature Communications

Biochemistry

Evolution from Composome to RNA Replicase
Deng et al. — preprint

Prebiotic Gels as the Cradle of Life
Khanum et al. — ChemSystemsChem

Coenzyme-protein interactions since early life
Sanchez Rocha et al. — eLife

Abiotic N2 reduction in submarine hydrothermal systems could quickly fertilize prebiotic oceans
Sun et al. — Nature Communications

The Natural history of the transition between RNA to DNA in the early stages of life
Torres De Farias et al. — BioSystems

Microbiology

‘Fire amoeba’ survives in hotter conditions than any other complex cell
Callaway — Nature

Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
Kay et al. — Nature

A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes
Rappaport et al. — preprint

Subzero cell division, respiration, and genomic traits of cryophilic Arthrobacter agilis Ant-EH-1 isolated from cold-arid Antarctic mineral soils
Wood et al. — Frontiers in Microbiology

Planetary Sciences

Interstellar Ices as Carriers of Supernova Material to the Early Solar System
Bizzarro et al. — Nature Communications

Alteration history of aluminum-rich rocks at Jezero crater, Mars
Broz et al. — Communications Earth & Environment

Large drainage systems produced half of Mars’ ancient river sediment
Zaki et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences