[Wednesday, February 1, 2006] Clues to finding current or past life on Mars begins with an examination of Earth's most extreme environments according to a group of researchers launching an international broadcast science expedition January 30, 2006 with The JASON Project.

[Wednesday, February 1, 2006] One of the paradoxes of recent explorations of the Martian surface is that the more we see of the planet, the more it looks like Earth.

[Wednesday, February 1, 2006] In a new study that provides a novel way of looking at our solar system's past, a group of planetary scientists and geochemists announce that they have found evidence on Earth of an asteroid breakup or collision that occurred 8.2 million years ago.

[Friday, February 3, 2006] "I want to make sure that NASA employees hear directly from me on how I view the issue of scientific openness and the role of public affairs within the agency."

[Sunday, February 5, 2006] A sudden increase in oxygen in the Earth's recent geological history, widely considered necessary for the expansion of animal life, occurred just as the rate of clay formation on the Earth's surface also increased

[Tuesday, February 7, 2006] A four-year project to test the possibility of transporting scientific equipment and material by ground from a field station located on Antarctica's coastal edge to another deep in the continent's center has ended in success.

[Wednesday, February 8, 2006] The Virgin Atlantic Airways GlobalFlyer aircraft took off today from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility, Fla., at 7:22 a.m. EST. The effort is an attempt to set a new world record for the longest flight made by any aircraft.

[Sunday, February 12, 2006] Overcoming challenging ice conditions, a ship has safely delivered cargo needed to supply National Science Foundation research stations in Antarctica through the coming austral winter and into the next research season.

[Sunday, February 12, 2006] Icy chunks of frozen methane and water are not responsible for the periodic increases in atmospheric methane recorded in Greenland ice cores, according to a Penn State geoscientist.

[Monday, February 13, 2006] The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project will define an integrated campaign of missions to implement exploration analog missions, according to requirements from various NASA programs and projects

[Thursday, February 16, 2006] The loss of ice from Greenland doubled between 1996 and 2005, as its glaciers flowed faster into the ocean in response to a generally warmer climate, according to a NASA/University of Kansas study.

[Thursday, February 16, 2006] "JAXA would like to announce that image data was successfully acquired by the Panchromatic Remote- sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM) onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "Daichi"

[Friday, February 17, 2006] JAXA would like to announce that image data was successfully acquired by the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type-2 (AVNIR-2) onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "Daichi".

[Saturday, February 18, 2006] Scientists have found evidence that tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures may have once reached 107 degrees F (42 degrees C) much higher than ocean temperatures today and warmer than a hot tub.

[Sunday, February 19, 2006] The Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project is made up of seven separate field groups that work cooperatively to better understand the area's unique ecosystem. It's a textbook example of an interdisciplinary approach to research.

[Sunday, February 19, 2006] The last time the US celebrated an International Polar Year, it joined 67 nations in concentrated polar research. In March 2007 the worldwide scientific community will again unite to further its understanding of the vital polar systems.

[Sunday, February 19, 2006] On Dec. 27, 2004, scientists detected the largest gamma-ray burst ever recorded -50,000 light years away. Its powerful rays penetrated deep into the ionosphere, the electrically conductive layer encircling Earth.

[Sunday, February 19, 2006] "Although the ocean is vast and the sea deep, human impacts now reach all corners of the planet, and we must understand what we are impacting as well as the possible consequences."

[Monday, February 20, 2006] Increased carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly making the world's oceans more acidic and, if unabated, could cause a mass extinction of marine life similar to one that occurred 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs disappeared.

[Monday, February 20, 2006] The Tree of Life is flourishing. The Web-based project, a massive collaboration among scientists from all over the world, is growing more "leaves" and "branches" all the time.

[Wednesday, February 22, 2006] A "safe zone" in the radiation belts surrounding Earth moves higher in altitude and latitude during peaks in solar activity, according to new research by a NASA-led team.

[Friday, February 24, 2006] Panspermia is the idea that life--hitchhiking on rocks ejected from meteorite impacts on one world--could travel through space and seed other worlds with life under favorable conditions.

[Saturday, February 25, 2006] At the latest meeting of the ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board, which took place at ESA's Headquarters in Paris on 23 and 24 February, ESA received the green light from its Member States to build and launch a CryoSat recovery mission, CryoSat-2.

[Saturday, February 25, 2006] Unique views of Earth afforded by a pioneering twin ESA radar satellite flight has brought an extra dimension to maps of Canada's newest territory, the results winning praise from the Canadian government.

[Saturday, February 25, 2006] Clearing the way for the launch of the Meteorological Operational satellite (MetOp), ESA EUMETSAT met at ESA headquarters in Paris, France, on 22 February to sign an update of the co-operation agreement for the MetOp programme, in place since 1999.

[Sunday, February 26, 2006] JAXA has acquired images of Leyte Island where a huge landslide occurred on February 17, by the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "Daichi."

[Tuesday, February 28, 2006] NOAA and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites today announced they have signed a Data Denial Implementation Plan, which secures the continued flow of real-time meteorological satellite data.

[Tuesday, February 28, 2006] The National Weather Service estimates that lightning strikes within the United States an average of 25 million times each year, killing an average of 67 people and causing property losses, damage to aircraft and electronics and can trigger wildfires.