[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] NASA's sun-focused Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, twin spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year.

[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] Was the course of life on the planet altered 12,900 years ago by a giant comet exploding over Canada? New evidence found by UC Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ken Tankersley and colleagues suggests the answer is affirmative.

[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] "Tuesday AM dive. Deepworkers: Darlene Lim, Mike Gephardt. CapCom: Bernard South, south basin the 15m and 30m contours."

[Thursday, July 3, 2008] Earth observation satellites have provided vital information to relief workers in Myanmar throughout a particularly long crisis response window following the devastating Cyclone Nargis that hit the country on 2 and 3 May 2008.

[Friday, July 4, 2008] Billowing smoke from Northern California wildfires that have burnt more than 1400 km²

[Friday, July 4, 2008] University of Florida geologists say they have found strong evidence that a half-dozen major basins in India were formed a billion or more years ago, making them at least 500 million years older than commonly thought.

[Tuesday, July 8, 2008] The June 26 issue of Nature features a report on the results of underwater research conducted with a pair of NASA Astrobiology-sponsored robotic explorers.

[Wednesday, July 9, 2008] A research team has for the first time discovered evidence of water that came from deep within the Moon, a revelation that strongly suggests water has been a part of the Moon since its early existence.

[Thursday, July 10, 2008] When observing with the GEMINI telescopes, two astronomers from Brazil and the United States discovered for the first time asteroids that are similar to "ordinary chondrites", the most common meteorites found on Earth.

[Thursday, July 10, 2008] Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA.

[Saturday, July 12, 2008] Hurricane Bertha was traveling northward at 10 knots across the eastern part of the central Atlantic Ocean when this image was taken on July 9 by one of the Expedition 17 crewmembers aboard the ISS 220 statute miles above the Earth.

[Saturday, July 12, 2008] The Basin fire in central California is featured in this image photographed by astronaut Greg Chamitoff, Expedition 17 flight engineer, on the International Space Station.

[Saturday, July 12, 2008] The Piute fire in California is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station.

[Monday, July 14, 2008] The Governor will join NASA and federal and state fire officials at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field to tour the facility and discuss the important role of NASA's remotely piloted aircraft to California's firefight.

[Monday, July 14, 2008] A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week, gathering information that will be used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning within the state. Additional flights are planned for next week.

[Tuesday, July 15, 2008] At an address at the 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, the Chairman of the ASE's Committee on NEOs, Rusty Schweickart, advised the gathering of scientists that their political colleagues would soon be turning to them for advice on asteroid impacts.

[Tuesday, July 15, 2008] The oldest rocks so far identified on Earth are one-half billion years younger than the planet itself, so geologists have relied on certain crystals as micro-messengers from ancient times.

[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] The Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of analyses of peat profiles taken from the disaster region.

[Thursday, July 17, 2008] For humans in the path of destructive hurricanes and tsunamis, an accurate warning of the pending event is critical for damage control and survival. Such warnings require a solid base of scientific observations, and a new satellite is ready for the job.

[Thursday, July 17, 2008] NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds.

[Tuesday, July 22, 2008] Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, but many of these minute creatures are living on a geologic timescale.

[Wednesday, July 23, 2008] Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison hosted NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Secretary of Agriculture Edward T. Schafer during the signing of a MOU to enable the USDA ARS to conduct plant related research on the International Space Station.

[Thursday, July 24, 2008] Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that cause sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the aurora borealis, called the Northern Lights.

[Tuesday, July 29, 2008] Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before. The cluster of five vents - one towering nearly four stories in height - are venting water as hot as 570 F.

[Wednesday, July 30, 2008] Less than a month after launch, the NASA-French space agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps of global ocean surface topography, surface wave height and wind speed.