[Friday, May 4, 2007] The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) may have glimpsed long-sought oscillations on the Sun's surface. The data will reveal details about the very core of our central star and it contains clues as to how the Sun formed, 4.6 billion years ago.

[Sunday, May 6, 2007] Ever wondered if Envisat, Integral or the ISS was overhead? Now you can view the location of ESA's Earth-orbiting spacecraft and other ESA-related missions in real-time via our new tracking site.

[Sunday, May 6, 2007] May 7-18, 2007, the 12th mission of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) will take place in the Aquarius habitat off the coast of Key Largo, Florida.

[Wednesday, May 9, 2007] An intense training week for the 12th NEEMO mission has concluded successfully with all 4 crew members graduating from "Aquanaut Candidate" status to being officially signed off to start the mission on Monday, May 7.

[Wednesday, May 9, 2007] A new study by NASA scientists suggests that greenhouse-gas warming may raise average summer temperatures in the eastern United States nearly 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the 2080s.

[Saturday, May 12, 2007] "Jose’s educational outreach was exciting. Six schools, including one from the UK, participated. The students asked good questions about our experiments, remote robotic surgery experiments and the plant germination experiment."

[Monday, May 14, 2007] QuikSCAT is currently two years beyond its five-year design lifetime and there is no near-term plan to replace the satellite's severe weather prediction capabilities.

[Monday, May 14, 2007] Interior Deputy Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett announced today the formation of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC). The Interior Department is currently seeking nominations for membership on the new advisory group.

[Tuesday, May 15, 2007] Researchers exploring the possibility of finding life forms on Mars can look to diverse populations of microorganisms found to be living in a similar environment underneath the Antarctic polar ice cap, as described in the April issue of "Astrobiology".

[Tuesday, May 15, 2007] A team of NASA and university scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures.

[Tuesday, May 15, 2007] NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) awarded delivery orders to four contractors for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Spacecraft Accommodation Study on April 30.

[Tuesday, May 15, 2007] Scientists this week begin the final leg of a five-year, NASA-funded mission to reach the bottom of Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, the world's deepest known sinkhole.

[Tuesday, May 15, 2007] A partnership between NASA and the U.S. Naval Academy is offering students real-world experience. MidSTAR-2 will carry four experiments into space in 2011 to look at different parts of Earth's atmosphere, gamma rays and solar winds.

[Thursday, May 17, 2007] On Wednesday I did a short (5 minute) live interview with the NEEMO 12 crew from their Aquarius underwater habitat.

[Saturday, May 19, 2007] EUMETSAT has just reported that Europe entered a new era of meteorology and climatology when MetOp-A, Europe's first polar-orbiting meteorological satellite, was on 15 May 2007 officially declared operational after only six months of commissioning.

[Saturday, May 19, 2007] Engineers recently met to discuss preparations for a mission that is being implemented with the cooperation of Japan to address the need for a better understanding of how the interactions between clouds, aerosols and solar radiation regulate climate.

[Saturday, May 19, 2007] The most detailed portraits ever of the Earth's land surface have been created with ESA's Envisat environmental satellite. The portraits are the first products produced as part of the ESA-initiated GlobCover project and are available online.

[Tuesday, May 22, 2007] Louisiana State University announced today that it will serve as the host for a symposium Titled "Risk and Exploration: Earth As A Classroom" devoted to examining how risk factors into the exploration of - and beyond - our home planet.

[Tuesday, May 22, 2007] NASA satellite data have helped scientists solve a decades-old puzzle about how vast blooms of microscopic plants can form in the middle of otherwise barren mid-ocean regions.

[Wednesday, May 23, 2007] Using NASA's Swift satellite, astronomers have discovered that energetic flares seen after gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are not just hiccups, they appear to be a continuation of the burst itself.

[Friday, May 25, 2007] Students from all over the world will gather to participate in the Odyssey of the Mind's 28th World Finals, a creative problem-solving competition, at the Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich., May 23 through 26.

[Friday, May 25, 2007] SOHO now enables scientists to forecast solar radiation storms, giving future astronauts, traveling to the moon and Mars, time to seek shelter and ground controllers time to safeguard satellites.

[Tuesday, May 29, 2007] The origin and movement of waves reaching up to 11 metres that devastated France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean on Saturday evening have been detected with ESA's Envisat satellite.

[Tuesday, May 29, 2007] Ever dreamed of taking part in an expedition among an international crew of scientists and engineers? Well here is your chance to participate in the Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition 2007.

[Tuesday, May 29, 2007] In 2006, Greenland experienced more days of melting snow and at higher altitudes than average over the past 18 years, according to a new NASA-funded project using satellite observations.

[Wednesday, May 30, 2007] Sound waves escaping the sun's interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power a thin region of the sun's atmosphere, according to research funded by the NSF and NASA.

[Wednesday, May 30, 2007] Travellers have relied on accurate timekeeping for navigation since the development of the marine chronometer in the eighteenth century. Galileo also relies on clocks -- but they are millions of times more accurate than earlier timepieces.

[Wednesday, May 30, 2007] CMEs begin when the sun launches a billion tons of electrically conducting gas (plasma) into space at millions of miles per hour. A CME cloud is laced with magnetic fields, and CMEs directed our way smash into Earth's magnetic field.

[Wednesday, May 30, 2007] "MR. GRIFFIN: I have no doubt that global -- that a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. "

[Thursday, May 31, 2007] NASA and Columbia University Earth Institute research finds that human-made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth's climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.