The University of Wisconsin-Madison said Thursday that it has been awarded a $6.5 million grant from NASA to join a collaboration studying the origins and evidence of life on Earth.
With the National Aeronautics and Space Administration funds, Wisconsin researchers will become part of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute. The Institute focuses on the hunt for extraterrestrial life and early life on Earth by developing techniques and instruments to read the chemical signatures living organisms leave in rocks and minerals.