[Tuesday, October 6, 2009] How can we be sure that instruments that will be sent on future Martian missions will work properly? How do we know that they will obtain accurate and precise measurements?

[Tuesday, October 6, 2009] As we prepare for future "Search for Life' NASA and ESA missions, a crucial goal is also to test 'life' i.e., the biology is also one of our primary tasks.

[Thursday, October 8, 2009] New research suggests that there may be plenty of oxygen available in Europa's ocean to support life, a hundred times more oxygen than previously estimated.

[Monday, October 12, 2009] The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth more than 2 billion years ago.

[Tuesday, October 13, 2009] During the conference, researchers presented recent discoveries and debated on the roles of future space missions and ground-based facilities for finding habitable planets around nearby stars.

[Thursday, October 15, 2009] A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is right, it may have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs off 65 million years ago.

[Thursday, October 15, 2009] On Monday 19 October 2009, astronomers will report at the international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, Portugal, on a significant discovery in the field of exoplanets.

[Sunday, October 18, 2009] There's not much in the ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys External U.S. government site to interest anglers looking to land the big one.

[Monday, October 19, 2009] The team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, reports on the incredible discovery of some 32 new exoplanets, cementing HARPS's position as the world's foremost exoplanet hunter.

[Tuesday, October 20, 2009] On March 31, 2003, the National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a final rule that authorized the collection of meteorites in Antarctica for scientific purposes only.

[Wednesday, October 21, 2009] In July a group of early-career astrobiologists (graduate students and postdocs) spent two days engaged in intensive brainstorming at the first ever Early-Career Astrobiology Research Focus Group (RFG).

[Monday, October 26, 2009] Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago. Perhaps ironically, these volcanoes first caused global warming -- by releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

[Wednesday, October 28, 2009] Astrobiologists searching for life in the universe, believe that Darwin's vision of natural selection promises to profoundly alter and expand the notion of life and its origins.

[Thursday, October 29, 2009] Members of NAI's team at Georgia Tech have a new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution describing an analysis of ribosomal structure and sequence.

[Thursday, October 29, 2009] Scientists widely accept that around 2.4 billion years ago, the Earth's atmosphere underwent a dramatic change when oxygen levels rose sharply.