[Wednesday, October 1, 2008] Complicated networks of magnetic fields power the sun's atmosphere and create both the beautiful structures and violent explosions that scientists study.

[Friday, October 3, 2008] Challenger Center for Space Science Education is partnering with the new release of TERC's Windows on Earth website that allows students, teachers and the general public to experience in simulated real time the view from the ISS.

[Friday, October 3, 2008] ESA and European industries have updated the planning of the preparatory activities for a new tentative launch date of 27 October 2008 for the GOCE satellite.

[Friday, October 3, 2008] After reaching the second-lowest extent ever recorded last month, sea ice in the Arctic has begun to refreeze in the face of autumn temperatures, closing both the Northern Sea Route and the direct route through the Northwest Passage.

[Monday, October 6, 2008] A tiny asteroid discovered just hours ago at an Arizona observatory will enter Earth's atmosphere harmlessly at approximately 10:46 p.m. Eastern time tonight (2:46 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time).

[Tuesday, October 7, 2008] This report examines a number of exploration campaigns that have taken place during the last 700 years, and considers them from a risk perspective.

[Wednesday, October 8, 2008] I had great hopes for this paper. After I read it, I felt disappointment. I slept on it. I read it again this morning. I am still disappointed. The Strathclyde study said that Columbus's voyages were a tactical failure and a strategic success. Really?

[Thursday, October 9, 2008] The first ecosystem ever found having only a single biological species has been discovered 2.8 km beneath the surface of the earth in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa.

[Friday, October 10, 2008] The images of Earth cover both visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum and can be split into spectra, in order to search for the signature of molecules in the Earth's atmosphere.

[Monday, October 13, 2008] Astronomers searching for rocky planets that could support life in other solar systems should look outside, as well as within, the so-called "habitable zone," University of Arizona planetary scientists say.

[Monday, October 13, 2008] Log in during Earth Science Week 2008 as scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center answer the five big Earth science questions.

[Thursday, October 16, 2008] Hot, young planets may be easier to spot because they stay that way longer than astronomers have thought, according to new work by MIT planetary scientist Linda Elkins-Tanton.

[Thursday, October 16, 2008] New research suggests that lightening and volcanoes may have sparked early life on Earth.

[Sunday, October 19, 2008] Using sophisticated airborne radar and other Information Age tools and techniques, the scientists will virtually "peel away" more than four kilometers (2.5 miles) of ice covering an Antarctic mountain range that rivals the Alps in elevation.

[Tuesday, October 21, 2008] Measuring a chemical tracer in samples of ancient fish scales, bones and teeth, University of Missouri and University of Florida researchers have studied circulation in the Late Cretaceous North Atlantic Ocean.

[Tuesday, October 21, 2008] How best to map 'boreal' or northern forest with spaceborne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden. The campaign addresses one of the key objectives of the candidate Earth Explorer BIOMASS mission.

[Tuesday, October 21, 2008] The German research vessel Polarstern has returned today to Bremerhaven from the Arctic Sea. It has cruised as the first research vessel ever both the Northeast and the Northwest Passages and thereby circled the North Pole.

[Tuesday, October 21, 2008] NASA invites you to submit your name to be included on a microchip on NASA's Glory Mission. Glory is the first mission dedicated to understanding the effects of particles in the atmosphere and the sun's variability on Earth's climate.

[Wednesday, October 22, 2008] NASA and the Challenger Center for Space Education have partnered to engage students in ongoing activities for one of NASA's concepts for astronaut housing on the moon through a contest to name a habitat in Antarctica.

[Wednesday, October 22, 2008] After using an Earth-observing satellites to image Antarctica to create a high-resolution mosaic of the continent, Ken Jezek hopes the world's space agencies will pull together their spaceborne resources to map the cryosphere in unprecedented detail.

[Thursday, October 23, 2008] Researchers have unearthed crystalline magnetic fossils of a previously unknown species of microorganism that lived at the boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, some 55 million years ago.

[Thursday, October 23, 2008] New research indicates a powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated.

[Friday, October 24, 2008] The Russian authorities responsible for the Rockot launcher that shall carry ESA's GOCE Earth Explorer satellite into orbit have completed the investigation of a failure in the guidance and navigation system of the launcher's Upper Stage (Breeze KM).

[Monday, October 27, 2008] Inside your laptop is a small accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your hard disk from sudden jolts. It turns out that the same chip is a pretty good earthquake sensor, too.

[Wednesday, October 29, 2008] The amount of methane in Earth's atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end approximately a decade in which atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas were essentially stable.