[Monday, October 1, 2007] Astronomers at the University of Rochester are pointing to three nearby stars they say may hold "embryonic planets"—a missing link in planet-formation theories.

[Tuesday, October 2, 2007] . A new study appearing this month in Genome Research reveals that protein architectures - the three-dimensional structures of specific regions within proteins - provide an extraordinary window on the history of life.

[Tuesday, October 2, 2007] STEREO has captured the first images of a collision between a comet and a solar hurricane. It is the first time scientists have witnessed such an event on another cosmic body. STEREO recorded the event April 20.

[Tuesday, October 2, 2007] A chance encounter between spacecraft Ulysses and Comet McNaught's ion tail has scientists in the University of Michigan's College of Engineering marveling at a stroke of luck and some surprising data.

[Wednesday, October 3, 2007] An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

[Wednesday, October 3, 2007] If space travelers ever visit Saturn's largest moon, they will find a tropical world where temperatures plunge to minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit, methane rains from the sky and dunes of ice or tar cover the planet's most arid regions.

[Thursday, October 4, 2007] "Even though the NAI doesn't operate on an academic year calendar, I can't help but feel that we are starting a "new year" this month."

[Tuesday, October 9, 2007] One of the promising methods to search for life on extra-solar planets (exoplanets) is to detect life's signatures in their atmospheres.

[Tuesday, October 9, 2007] New findings from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that space dust - the same stuff that makes up living creatures and planets - was manufactured in large quantities in the winds of black holes that populated our early universe.

[Thursday, October 11, 2007] A recent analysis of images provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's "tiger stripe" fractures that straddle the moon's south polar region.

[Thursday, October 11, 2007] Newly assembled radar images from the Cassini spacecraft provide the best view of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, while a new radar image reveals that Titan's south polar region also has lakes.

[Friday, October 12, 2007] "Persistent drizzle moving in from the coast clearing late morning" - a phrase frequently used in weather forecasts across the world can now be applied to the weather on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

[Monday, October 15, 2007] The search for habitable planets like Earth around other stars fulfils an ancient imperative to understand our origins and place in the cosmos. The past decade has seen the discovery of hundreds of planets, but nearly all are gas giants.

[Monday, October 15, 2007] Join the Challenger Center for Space Science Education and NASA's K-12 Engineering Design Challenge and design a mini-greenhouse for use by future astronauts living and working on the moon.

[Wednesday, October 17, 2007] Is Mars dead, or is it only sleeping? There is evidence, like vast, dried up riverbeds, that Mars once was a warm and wet world that could have supported life. Are the best times over, at least for life, on Mars?

[Friday, October 19, 2007] Scientists scouting potential landing sites for NASA's next Mars rover mission are using new data from a powerful mineral-mapping camera to narrow the site selection.