[Friday, October 1, 2010] Anthropology professor Vance T. Holliday and others take issue with claims that a comet strike led to the demise of Paleoindian megafauna hunters during the Pleistocene.

[Friday, October 1, 2010] A team of astronomers that includes the University of Hawaii' at Manoa's Nader Haghighipour has announced the discovery of a planet that could have liquid water on its surface.

[Friday, October 1, 2010] Participants will discuss 'top down' origin of life research, which will ultimately allow us to rewind the evolutionary record of biochemical processes and assemblies.

[Tuesday, October 5, 2010] NASA's Astrobiology Program addresses three fundamental questions: How does life begin and evolve? Is there life beyond Earth, and if so, how can we detect it? What is the future of life on Earth and in the universe?

[Tuesday, October 5, 2010] The frigid ice of Jupiter's moon Europa may be hiding more than a presumed ocean: it is likely the scene of some unexpectedly fast chemistry between water and sulfur dioxide at extremely cold temperatures.

[Friday, October 8, 2010] Simulating possible chemical processes in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, a UA-led planetary research team found amino acids and nucleotide bases in the mix -- the most important ingredients of life on Earth

[Saturday, October 9, 2010] The Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite has completed assembly at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and is nearly ready for a December delivery to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where it will be joined to the Curiosity rover.

[Saturday, October 9, 2010] An international team of scientists, exploiting pioneering techniques at Arizona State University, has taken a significant step toward unlocking the secrets of oxygenation of the Earth's oceans and atmosphere.

[Thursday, October 21, 2010] Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place.

[Friday, October 22, 2010] Researchers at the Planetary Science Institute have found a new explanation for how seas and lakes may have once developed on Mars.

[Tuesday, October 26, 2010] An asteroid crashing into the deep ocean could have dramatic worldwide environmental effects including depleting the Earth's protective ozone layer for several years, a Planetary Science Institute researcher has found.

[Tuesday, October 26, 2010] The American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology (ASGSB) sees a potential future that science will have robust access to space through commercial providers.

[Thursday, October 28, 2010] Astronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space. They used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to find the little carbon spheres throughout our Milky Way galaxy -- in the space between stars and around three dying stars.

[Thursday, October 28, 2010] News media are invited to attend a discussion lead by world famous biologist J. Craig Venter, best known for his role in sequencing the human genome and creating the first cell "booted up" from a synthetic genome.

[Thursday, October 28, 2010] A team of scientists, led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside, has found new evidence linking "Snowball Earth" glacial events to the rise of early animals.

[Thursday, October 28, 2010] The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis.

[Thursday, October 28, 2010] Nearly one in four stars similar to the sun may host planets as small as Earth, according to a new study funded by NASA and the University of California.

[Saturday, October 30, 2010] The giant dragonflies of ancient Earth with wingspans of up to 70 centimeters (28 inches) are generally attributed to higher oxygen atmospheric levels in the atmosphere in the past.

[Sunday, October 31, 2010] Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone more than three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars.