[Monday, November 3, 2008] An international team of distinguished scientists, teachers and explorers are about to embark on a six-week expedition to Antarctica to study the icy ecosystems of the Untersee Oasis, including perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee.

[Tuesday, November 4, 2008] The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for NOAA called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday by C-5A military cargo aircraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

[Thursday, November 6, 2008] A team has used satellite data to make the most precise measurements to date of changes in the mass of mountain glaciers in the Gulf of Alaska, a region expected to be a significant contributor to global sea level rise over the next 50-100 years.

[Monday, November 10, 2008] Heat-loving organisms live where the water is hot but the gene pool is shallow. Genetic analysis has shown that so-called thermophiles have fewer mutations in their protein-coding genes than do their microbial cousins that live at room temperature.

[Monday, November 10, 2008] NASA will host a seminar at 11 a.m. EST, Friday, Nov. 14, to discuss the current state of knowledge about how the "breathing" Earth influences current and future levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

[Tuesday, November 11, 2008] Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

[Friday, November 14, 2008] Understanding how life started remains a major challenge for science. At a European Science Foundation (ESF) and COST 'Frontiers of Science' conference in Sicily in October, scientists discussed two new approaches to the problem.

[Friday, November 14, 2008] NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin final launch preparations.

[Sunday, November 16, 2008] The Canadian Space Agency announced that MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has been awarded a 16-month contract valued at $40 million to begin the design of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM).

[Tuesday, November 18, 2008] Silicon chips developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory are at the heart of a new survey telescope that will soon provide a more than fivefold improvement in scientists' ability to detect asteroids and comets that could someday pose a threat to the planet.

[Tuesday, November 18, 2008] A new nano satellite mission, called 'Firefly,' sponsored by the NSF and led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will explore the relationship between lightning and these sudden bursts, called Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes.

[Tuesday, November 18, 2008] Images from NASA satellites give a wider perspective of the full extent and devastation of the wildfires raging in Southern California.

[Tuesday, November 18, 2008] An Earth-observing satellite that has provided early detection of ocean storms and advanced the scientific exploration of global ocean wind patterns has been recognized for helping scientists better understand our home planet.

[Friday, November 21, 2008] NASA, USAID and their international partners cut the ribbon Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, for SERVIR-Africa. The SERVIR-Africa system integrates the satellite resources of the United States and other countries into a Web-based Earth information system.

[Tuesday, November 25, 2008] Investigation of the fireball that lit up the skies of Alberta and Saskatchewan on November 20 has determined that an asteroid fragment weighing approximately 10 tonnes entered the Earth's atmosphere over the prairie provinces last Thursday evening.

[Friday, November 28, 2008] Students at Matthew Henson Elementary School will see, speak with and pose questions to Shakira Brown, a teacher at New York's Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy, during a videoconference scheduled for Monday, Dec. 1 at 11:30 a.m.