[Tuesday, July 3, 2007] The Space Studies Board is holding a Colloquium to foster discussion in the global science community on Mars exploration planning in the broad context of the findings of three recent studies addressing astrobiology research

[Tuesday, July 3, 2007] A new report examines the search for life elsewhere in the universe and whether the fundamental requirements for life as we generally know it are the only ways phenomena recognized as "life" could be supported beyond our planet.

[Thursday, July 5, 2007] NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed for the first time surface details of Saturn's moon Hyperion, including cup-like craters filled with hydrocarbons that may indicate more widespread presence in our solar system of basic chemicals necessary for life.

[Thursday, July 5, 2007] From the deepest seafloor to the highest mountain, from the hottest region to the cold Antarctic plateau, environments labelled as extreme are numerous on Earth and they present a wide variety of features and characteristics.

[Thursday, July 5, 2007] A team of international researchers has collected the oldest ever recovered DNA samples and used them to show that Greenland was much warmer at some point during the last Ice Age than most people have believed.

[Monday, July 9, 2007] The search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond should include efforts to detect what scientists sometimes refer to as "weird" life -- that is, life with an alternative biochemistry to that of life on Earth -- says a new report.

[Monday, July 9, 2007] NASA's next Mars mission will look beneath a frigid arctic landscape for conditions favorable to past or present life.

[Wednesday, July 11, 2007] Extrasolar planets more massive than Jupiter are extremely rare in other outer solar systems according to a new survey according to astronomers who used powerful telescopes in Arizona and Chile.

[Thursday, July 12, 2007] Scientists report the first conclusive discovery of the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our Solar System.

[Thursday, July 12, 2007] Once again I am headed north to Devon Island, the home of the Haughton-Mars Project. This is a place many have come to call "Mars on Earth" for its similarity to Mars. For me this is my third trip to Devon Island - my third mission, if you will.

[Monday, July 23, 2007] Astronomers using data from the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have found the largest negatively-charged molecule yet seen in space.

[Monday, July 23, 2007] We have used a simple camera phone to significantly improve an `exploration system' for astrobiology and geology. This camera phone will make it much easier to develop and test computer-vision algorithms for future planetary exploration.

[Monday, July 23, 2007] University of Arizona astronomers who are probing the oxygen-rich environment around a supergiant star with one of the world's most sensitive radio telescopes have discovered a score of molecules that include compounds needed for life.

[Thursday, July 26, 2007] The mastodon becomes only the third extinct taxon for which the complete mitochondrial genome is known, joining the superficially similar looking woolly mammoth, and several species of Moa, the giant flightless Australasian bird.