[Sunday, January 2, 2011] The 2011 Undergraduate Research Associates in Astrobiology Program is a 10-week program for undergraduate students interested in working with scientists whose research adds to the current body of astrobiology knowledge.

[Sunday, January 2, 2011] The book was created by astrobiology researchers at Montana State University with support from the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

[Monday, January 3, 2011] Are we alone in the universe? Find out all about the search for extraterrestrial life in this educational parody of Ke$ha's hit song, "We R Who We R."

[Thursday, January 6, 2011] Biogeochemists at the University of California-Riverside (UCR) have found evidence that the oceans went back to being "anoxic," or oxygen-poor, around 499 million years ago, soon after the first appearance of animals on the planet.

[Saturday, January 8, 2011] NASA invites the public to join an online chat with a Kepler Mission team member who will answer your questions about exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, and a new planet finding on Monday, Jan. 10.

[Monday, January 10, 2011] NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

[Monday, January 10, 2011] The discovery of a hot Jupiter exoplanet that transfers orbital momentum to its host star may hold the key to a clearer understanding of the evolution of common planetary systems.

[Monday, January 10, 2011] The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC and NASA's Planetary Science Division welcomes you to a Mars Program Update starting at 10:30AM Eastern this Thursday, January 13, 2011 at NASM. The event will conclude by 12:30PM.

[Monday, January 10, 2011] Gina Trapani: "I got frustrated with NASA and made this video. NASA is the most fascinating, adventurous, epic institution ever devised by human beings, and their media sucks. Seriously."

[Tuesday, January 11, 2011] Today, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) is releasing the largest digital color image of the sky ever made, and it's free to all.

[Wednesday, January 12, 2011] NASA/GSFC has a requirement: For providing consultancy/expertise in the area of RF, digital and analog electronics design and development in support of the early phase of development of the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA) mass spectrometer.

[Thursday, January 13, 2011] Day of remembrance for crew of Space Shuttle Challenger and the continuation of their legacy through the Challenger Center for Space Science Education

[Friday, January 14, 2011] Biologists have been unable to agree on a definition of the complex phenomenon known as "life." In a special collection of essays in Astrobiology, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.,

[Friday, January 14, 2011] The NASA Astrobiology Institute is pleased to announce selections for research awards resulting from its 2010 Director's Discretionary Fund competition.

[Friday, January 14, 2011] In this new podcast produced through the NAI MIT team, journey back in time to learn about Ediacaran Fauna, a diverse group of organisms that lived in the world's oceans about 580 million years ago.

[Saturday, January 15, 2011] A research team led by astronomers from the University of Tokyo and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has discovered that inclined orbits may be typical rather than rare for exoplanetary systems.

[Tuesday, January 18, 2011] In order to maintain our fiscal responsibilities this situation demands that the Planetary Science Division Program Officers not over commit our R&A funds too early in the year.

[Wednesday, January 19, 2011] The Virtual Observatory (VO) is an international attempt to collect astronomical data (images, simulation, mission-logs, etc), organize it and develop tools that let astronomers access this huge amount of information.

[Wednesday, January 26, 2011] On January 28, 1986, our nation lost seven heroes as the Challenger Space Shuttle was destroyed shortly after launch. It was a tragic day, etched in the minds of us all and in the history books of our nation.

[Thursday, January 27, 2011] NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 2, to announce the Kepler mission's latest findings about planets outside our solar system.

[Friday, January 28, 2011] An affiliation between the University of Southern California and the SETI Institute will create formal ties between one of America's premier research universities and one of the most innovative and highly regarded scientific research institutions.