[Thursday, March 3, 2011] NASA research on a meteorite has provided new evidence that the inner planets formed from materials spread far and wide in the early solar system, and not just from nearby matter.

[Thursday, March 3, 2011] Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes new high angular resolution observations of the giant planet orbiting the star B Pictoris

[Friday, March 4, 2011] The scientists gathered their data from a diversity of plant species in Florida, including living individuals as well as samples extracted from herbarium collections and peat formations 100 to 150 years old.

[Sunday, March 6, 2011] The automated South Pole Station Food Growth Chamber offers comfort and nutrition for people living and working at the bottom of the world. It's also proving to be a model for supporting off-world exploration as well.

[Monday, March 7, 2011] NASA cannot stand behind or support a scientific claim unless it has been peer-reviewed or thoroughly examined by other qualified experts.

[Monday, March 7, 2011] This report was requested by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to review the status of planetary science in the United States and to develop a comprehensive strategy that will continue these advances in the coming decade.

[Tuesday, March 8, 2011] 3. What is his title? Answer: NASA Scientist. He does not have a Ph.D.

[Wednesday, March 9, 2011] Heat output from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus is much greater than was previously thought possible, according to a new analysis of data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

[Wednesday, March 9, 2011] Rocks on Mars dug from far underground by crater-blasting impacts are providing glimpses of one possible way Mars' atmosphere has become much less dense than it used to be.

[Wednesday, March 9, 2011] Here, we show that 1.4% to 2.7% of stars like the Sun are expected to have Earth analog planets, based on the Kepler data release of Feb 2011.

[Wednesday, March 9, 2011] What does a five-time shuttle astronaut and M.D. after he leaves NASA? He builds tricorders, of course.

[Thursday, March 10, 2011] The fifth and final landing site workshop for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission will be held May 16-18, 2011. All members of the scientific community are encouraged to participate in this important activity.

[Tuesday, March 15, 2011] We are now accepting applications to the NAI-sponsored Astrobiology Research Focus Group Workshop: an intensive three-day training workshop for early career astrobiologists.

[Wednesday, March 16, 2011] An adventurous team of experts will remember its intense heat, as they searched for microbial life between sand dunes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). They were searching for simple life forms that also may exist on other planets.

[Thursday, March 17, 2011] In addition to his Board of Trustees appointment, Cameron serves on the X PRIZE Foundation's Exploration Advisory Committee.

[Thursday, March 17, 2011] Gardens are always a source of surprises. After three weeks of steady growth in space under the watchful eye of Paolo Nespoli, the baby space plants of the Greenhouse in Space project have found a new - and unexpected - travelling companion.

[Thursday, March 17, 2011] As spring continues to unfold at Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

[Friday, March 18, 2011] During a planned contact on March 14, the Kepler spacecraft experienced a safe mode event. A safe mode is a self-protective measure that the spacecraft takes when something unexpected occurs.

[Saturday, March 19, 2011] This amendment delays the proposal due date for C.20 Astrobiology Science And Technology For Exploring Planets.

[Saturday, March 19, 2011] As many of you know, the Society's journal, Gravitational and Space Biology, is undergoing a series of changes to become a completely electronic, Open Journal, and the September issue will be the first in the new format.

[Sunday, March 20, 2011] A two-day symposium using NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) remote communications tools, on "The Ribosome: Structure, Function & Evolution," will be held on April 1-2, 2011.

[Monday, March 21, 2011] This is the seventh newsletter to the community regarding the planetary science decadal survey.

[Monday, March 21, 2011] Recent research aboard the space shuttle is giving scientists a better understanding of how infectious disease occurs in space and could someday improve astronaut health and provide novel treatments for people on Earth.

[Monday, March 21, 2011] In the years since Miller's initial experiments, scientists have come to believe that the atmosphere of primitive Earth wasn't made up of the same gases that he used in his initial study.

[Tuesday, March 22, 2011] After a safe mode event that lasted 144 hours, NASA's Kepler spacecraft returned to science data collection at 2:45 a.m. EDT Sunday, March 20.

[Wednesday, March 23, 2011] A portion of the "code" of life has been unraveled by a UC Santa Barbara graduate student from the town of Jojutla, Mexico.

[Wednesday, March 23, 2011] Are we all Martians? According to many planetary scientists, it's conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites.

[Wednesday, March 23, 2011] Brown dwarfs are essentially failed stars: they lack enough mass for gravity to trigger the nuclear reactions that make stars shine.

[Wednesday, March 23, 2011] The origin of life may have been smelly, according to a recent, NASA-funded analysis of residue from a variant of classic experiments performed by Dr. Stanley Miller in the 1950s.

[Friday, March 25, 2011] A mass extinction is hard enough for Earth's biosphere to handle, but when you chase it with prolonged oxygen deprivation, the biota ends up with a hangover that can last millions of years.

[Sunday, March 27, 2011] This composite of three artists' renderings from 1975 was only wish fulfillment for an unnamed JPL artist; however, the landscape and the rendered shapes took into account what was known about Mars that year.

[Monday, March 28, 2011] The earliest rocks in our Solar System were more like candy floss than the hard rock that we know today, according to research published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.

[Wednesday, March 30, 2011] NASA's Kepler Mission is giving astronomers such a clear view of changes in star brightness that they can now see clues about what's happening inside red giant stars.

[Wednesday, March 30, 2011] It could be that the best place to look for planets that can support life is around dim, dying stars called white dwarfs.