[Friday, June 1, 2007] In late May, the Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer (DEPTHX) robot successfully navigated one of the world's deepest sinkholes. The mission could be a prelude to a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, believed to contain a liquid water ocean.

[Friday, June 1, 2007] Today, two and a half years after the historic landing of ESA's Huygens probe on Titan, a new set of results on Saturn's largest moon is ready to be presented. Titan, as seen through the eyes of Huygens still holds exciting surprises, scientists say.

[Monday, June 4, 2007] Collecting rock and soil samples should be the highest priority scientific objective for Mars exploration, according to a new report from the National Research Council.

[Monday, June 4, 2007] The HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is helping NASA search for signs of past and present water on Mars. Students were recently challenged to help choose regions of Mars to photograph. Nine selected areas have been imaged.

[Monday, June 4, 2007] University of Wisconsin researchers will join 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.

[Sunday, June 10, 2007] Canada's space telescope, MOST, placed Gleise 581 under a scientific stakeout for about a month and a half, after a planet that might be capable of supporting life was discovered in that system.

[Monday, June 11, 2007] University of Arkansas researchers have tested the methane production of three different types of microorganisms in different soil types that resemble those found on Mars to test the possibility of these soils harboring life.

[Tuesday, June 12, 2007] Noted astrobiologist Imre Friedmann died yesterday morning. Friedmann guided the developing careers of many of today's leading astrobiologists.

[Thursday, June 14, 2007] NASA-funded astrobiologists at the University of California, Berkeley have discovered evidence supporting the presence of large oceans of liquid water on early Mars.

[Thursday, June 14, 2007] Saturn's moons Tethys and Dione are flinging great streams of particles into space, according to data from Cassini. The discovery suggests the possibility of some sort of geological activity, perhaps even volcanic, on these icy worlds.

[Thursday, June 14, 2007] NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has learned, for the first time, that organic molecules believed to be among life's building blocks, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, can survive another type of harsh setting, an explosion called a supernova.

[Friday, June 15, 2007] A young star's strange elliptical ring of dust likely heralds the presence of an undiscovered Neptune-sized planet, says a University of Rochester astronomer in the latest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

[Friday, June 22, 2007] When we think of extrasolar Earth-like planets, the first tendency is to imagine weird creatures like Jar Jar Binks, Chewbacca, and, if those are not bizarre enough, maybe even the pointy-eared Vulcan, Spock, of Star Trek fame.

[Friday, June 22, 2007] New computer models, from both Earth-based spectroscopy and space mission data, are providing space scientists compelling evidence for a better understanding of planetary atmospheric chemistry.

[Friday, June 22, 2007] The Science Steering Committee of the 2008 Astrobiology Science Conference (April 15-17, Santa Clara, California, USA) invites proposals for sessions related to the major scientific themes.

[Friday, June 22, 2007] WHOI has just completed a successful test of new robotic vehicles designed for use beneath the ice of the Arctic Ocean. These vehicles will conduct the first search for life on the seafloor of the world's most isolated ocean.

[Wednesday, June 27, 2007] In July 2007 several hundred students will get look over the shoulder of space researchers at a remote research base in the Canadian arctic. The place: Devon Island, a place many call "Mars on Earth".