[Wednesday, March 10, 2010] As the images were enhanced and dropped into Google Earth it became clear that we have imagery that overlapped in time to show the weather on that late August day as evening crept up on Africa and Europe.

[Wednesday, March 10, 2010] After more than three decades of service to researchers and staff stationed at the bottom of the world, the dome at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was deconstructed this austral summer.

[Monday, March 8, 2010] One factor that is not in dispute: the end of the Cretaceous 65.5 million years ago was marked by one of the most devastating extinctions our planet has faced.

[Monday, March 8, 2010] NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums.

[Friday, March 5, 2010] The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, lifted off Thursday aboard a Delta IV rocket at 6:57 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.

[Thursday, March 4, 2010] The project team is finalizing flight paths over Greenland's ice sheet and surrounding sea ice, where scientists will collect measurements, maps and images from a suite of airborne instruments.

[Monday, March 1, 2010] I have been reading books about space since, well, since I learned how to read.But until now I had not read a story of someone who aspired to touch the stars from the midst of revolution-racked Iran.

[Monday, March 1, 2010] An asteroid strike may not only account for the demise of ocean and land life 65 million years ago, but may explain the geographic unevenness of extinctions and recovery, according to Penn State geoscientists.

[Thursday, February 25, 2010] K.R. Sridhar used to spend his time as a researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., looking at the sky and dreaming of ways to sustain life on Mars.

[Tuesday, February 23, 2010] The iSWA is a robust, integrated system provides information about space weather conditions past, present, and future and, unlike many other programs currently in use, has an interface that the user can customize to suit a unique set of data requirements.

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