[Wednesday, April 2, 2008] These cellulose microfibers represent the oldest native biological macromolecules to have been directly isolated, examined biochemically, and visualized (without growth or replication) to date.

[Wednesday, April 2, 2008] An international team of astronomers has found 10 new "extra solar" planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun.

[Wednesday, April 2, 2008] Using radio observatories in the UK and US and computer simulations, a team of astronomers have identified the youngest forming planet yet seen.

[Friday, April 4, 2008] For astronauts there is one danger in space that does not end when they step out of their spacecraft. The radiation that permeates space unattenuated by Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere.

[Saturday, April 5, 2008] Looking for evidence of life on Mars or other planets? Finding cellulose microfibers would be the next best thing to a close encounter, according to new research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[Sunday, April 6, 2008] Flash back three or four billion years. Without warning, a meteor slams into the desert plains at over ten thousand miles per hour. With it, this violent collision may have planted the chemical seeds of life on Earth.

[Monday, April 7, 2008] A revolutionary laser technology being developed by scientists and engineers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), with colleagues at MIT, will enable scientists to spot Earth-sized worlds in Earth-like orbits.

[Wednesday, April 9, 2008] Organic macromolecules ("complex tholins") were synthesized from a 0.95 N2 / 0.05 CH4 atmosphere in a high-voltage AC flow discharge reactor.

[Wednesday, April 9, 2008] The significance of Waechtershaeuser's iron-sulfur world to the origin of life and the limits to its notional autocatalytic cycles are examined in kinetic simulations of the chain polymerization sequence

[Wednesday, April 9, 2008] The jarosite group minerals have received increasing attention since the discovery of jarosite on the martian surface by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.

[Wednesday, April 9, 2008] Materials blasted into space from the surface of early Earth may preserve a unique record of our planet's early surface environment.

[Wednesday, April 9, 2008] In the time since the Viking life-detection experiments were conducted on Mars, many missions have enhanced our knowledge about the environmental conditions on the Red Planet.

[Wednesday, April 9, 2008] The 5th Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon08), hosted by the SETI Institute, brings together a community of scholars, students, and educators that is as vigorous and intellectually diverse as ever.

[Friday, April 11, 2008] The new planet, which lies at a distance of 30 light years from the Earth, has a mass five times that of our planet but is the smallest found to date. One full day on the new planet would be equivalent to three weeks on Earth.

[Friday, April 11, 2008] Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth.

[Sunday, April 13, 2008] "I have to go hit the road via snowmobile to get back to the McGill High Arctic Research Station (MARS) which is where we are staying. It is not far, but it is a bit cool right now -25C - which for this time of year is not too bad."

[Tuesday, April 15, 2008] By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster.

[Tuesday, April 15, 2008] A study from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center demonstrates that the high-energy radiation found in space may lead to premature aging and prolonged oxidative stress in cells.

[Wednesday, April 16, 2008] The GMT will be the world's largest telescope -- one so powerful that it is expected to give perhaps the first definitive answer as to whether or not there is life beyond Earth.

[Wednesday, April 16, 2008] Research by University Professor Richard Peltier of physics reveals that the Earth's surface 700 million years ago may have been warmer than previously thought.

[Wednesday, April 16, 2008] Is there anybody out there? Probably not, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia. A mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low.

[Wednesday, April 16, 2008] "Here are a few more pictures and words for you regarding the CSA/McGill University Satellite system here at the CSA camp at Expedition Fiord on Axel Heiberg."

[Monday, April 21, 2008] Nicknamed ENDURANCE, for Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtartic Explorer, the $2.3 million project will send an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to Lake Bonney for two field seasons, beginning in November 2008.

[Wednesday, April 23, 2008] Brown University researchers have found compelling evidence of thick, recurring glaciers on Mars, a discovery that suggests that the Red Planet's climate was much more dynamic than previously believed - and could change again.

[Monday, April 28, 2008] "DR. HAWKING: Spreading out into space will have an even greater effect. It will completely change the future of the human race and maybe determine whether we have any future at all."

[Tuesday, April 29, 2008] A study published in the advance online edition of Nature Geoscience links the pre-human stability to connections between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the breakdown of minerals in the Earth's crust.

[Tuesday, April 29, 2008] In the rapid and fast-growing world of nanotechnology, researchers are continually on the lookout for new building blocks to push innovation and discovery to scales much smaller than the tiniest speck of dust.

[Tuesday, April 29, 2008] If you smacked a frozen chocolate bar on a table, it would break into bite-size pieces resembling the terrain in this Martian crater.