[Monday, June 2, 2008] Our investigation found that during the fall of 2004 through early 2006, the NASA HQ PAO managed the topic of climate change in a manner that reduced, marginalized, or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public...

[Monday, June 2, 2008] These two photos were taken of Scott Parazynski's good friend and climbing partner Adam Janikowski on the summit of Mt. Everest. Adam is shown posing with memorial banners for cosmoauts and astronauts who died during their missions.

[Tuesday, June 3, 2008] A team of Penn State scientists has discovered a new ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles.

[Tuesday, June 3, 2008] The Alaska Space Grant Program and the Arctic Amateur Radio Club formed the Balloon Experiment And Research Program - or B.E.A.R. for short- in December 2007.

[Friday, June 6, 2008] As part of the EPOXI mission's objectives to characterize the Earth as a planet for comparison with planets around other stars, the spacecraft looked back at Earth collecting a series of images.

[Friday, June 6, 2008] A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA.

[Sunday, June 15, 2008] Solar Probe+ (pronounced "Solar Probe plus") is a heat-resistant spacecraft designed to plunge deep into the sun's atmosphere where it can sample solar wind and magnetism first hand.

[Monday, June 16, 2008] News media are invited to share the excitement on Friday, June 27, 2008, as scientists and astronauts dive more than 200 feet deep in single-person submarines into the clear, blue depths of Pavilion Lake, in British Columbia, Canada.

[Monday, June 16, 2008] This view illustrates the diverse built environment surrounding NASA's Ames Research Center, or ARC located at the southernmost end of the San Francisco Bay.

[Tuesday, June 17, 2008] Satellite measurements of sea-surface height do much more than document and quantify change. They're a primary tool for understanding how the change is occurring and what the results for the planet may be.

[Tuesday, June 17, 2008] "Had a call from Alex, to say that there is no Sailmail signal available at present. Comms from the boat will be via Iridium and limited by cost and bandwidth. So if we experience a lack of blogs and/or messages there is no need to be concerned."

[Tuesday, June 17, 2008] A new study suggests that it is the ocean, and in particular the epic ebbs and flows of sea level and sediment over the course of geologic time, that is the primary cause of the world's periodic mass extinctions over the past 500 million years.

[Thursday, June 19, 2008] Moon buggies, stardust and space food are a few of the things visitors will learn about at the "NASA: 50 Years and Beyond" program during this summer's Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

[Thursday, June 19, 2008] A precision analysis of lava samples taken from the crater is giving scientists a new tool for reconstructing planetary origins. The results of the analysis will be published in the June 20 issue of the journal Science.

[Thursday, June 19, 2008] Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation.

[Thursday, June 19, 2008] NASA and scientists from the California Air Resources Board are conducting a series of research flights this month that are examining the atmosphere over the state to better understand the chemical dynamics of smog and greenhouse gases.

[Thursday, June 19, 2008] Today, the House Committee on Science and Technology's Energy and Environment Subcommittee continued its oversight of the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).

[Friday, June 20, 2008] A new NASA-French space agency oceanography satellite launched today from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on a globe-circling voyage to continue charting sea level, a vital indicator of global climate change.

[Tuesday, June 24, 2008] USAID announced the introduction of NextStorm, a new tool for severe weather prediction useful in developing countries. This new tool was created through a partnership including USAID, NASA, NOAA, UAH, and CATHALAC, based in Panama.

[Tuesday, June 24, 2008] A new website from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is devoted to educating the public about Earth's changing climate.

[Tuesday, June 24, 2008] The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) today announced that the China National Space Administration (CNSA) has been accepted as the eleventh full member agency of the organization.

[Wednesday, June 25, 2008] Ocean tides and currents across the globe still hold within their watery grasp the key to unanswered questions about our planet.

[Thursday, June 26, 2008] Work by a team of English scientists reinforces an earlier suggestion that evidence of life on the early Earth might be found in meteorites on the moon.

[Thursday, June 26, 2008] In 2000, the nation's next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch in 2008.

[Friday, June 27, 2008] The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora

[Friday, June 27, 2008] Wilkins Ice Shelf has experienced further break-up with an area of about 160 km

[Friday, June 27, 2008] New medical equipment recently delivered to the Antarctic station Concordia will help understand how our bodies physically adapt to this extreme environment -- knowledge which could help prepare for a future human mission to Mars.

[Friday, June 27, 2008] Isla de la Palma in the Canary Islands is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station.

[Saturday, June 28, 2008] A new analysis of ancient minerals called zircons suggests that a harsh climate may have scoured and possibly even destroyed the surface of the Earth's earliest continents.

[Saturday, June 28, 2008] Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on June 15, 2008

[Saturday, June 28, 2008] An international team of researchers was able to provide evidence of explosive volcanism in the deeps of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for the first time.

[Saturday, June 28, 2008] Sscientists have identified a region of the brain which encourages us to be adventurous. The region, located in a primitive area of the brain, is activated when we choose unfamiliar options, suggesting an evolutionary advantage for sampling the unknown.

[Saturday, June 28, 2008] At around 7:17 on the morning of June 30, 1908, a man based at the trading post at Vanavara in Siberia is sitting on his front porch. In a moment, 40 miles from the center of an immense blast of unknown origin, he will be hurled from his chair.