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03/18/08 SpaceDaily: Mercury's Shifting, Rolling Past 03/11/08 Space.com: Mysterious Craters Seen on Mercury 02/08/08 SpaceDaily: Messenger Team Begins Planning For Second Mercury Encounter 02/01/08 SpaceDaily: Mercury Magnetosphere Fends Off The Solar Wind 01/30/08 Space.com: NASA Spots Mysterious 'Spider' on Mercury 01/22/08 SpaceDaily: Mercurial Colors Makes For Subtle Eye Candy 01/22/08 SpaceDaily: Looking Toward The South Pole Of Mercury 01/21/08 NASA/Science: Mercury Flyby Sets Stage for New Discoveries 01/18/08 SpaceDaily: MESSENGER Reveals Mercury's Geological History 01/10/08 SpaceDaily: MESSENGER Team Receives First Optical Navigation Images Of Mercury As Flyby Approaches
02/05/08 SpaceDaily: Dawn Taking A Leisurely Interplanetary Cruise 12/25/07 SpaceDaily: Dawn Of The Ion Age 12/20/07 Space.com: Asteroid Probe Begins Interplanetary Cruise 09/25/07 Space.com: Asteroid Mission to Probe Secrets of Planet Formation 07/02/07 SpaceDaily: Ceres As An Abode Of Life
01/18/08 SpaceDaily: Happy Second Birthday New Horizons 11/26/07 SpaceDaily: The PI's Perspective: Autumn 2007: Onward to the Kuiper Belt 11/09/07 SpaceDaily: Data For The Next Generations 10/15/07 Space.com: Mystery of Io's Atmosphere Solved 10/11/07 SpaceDaily: New Horizons' SWAP instrument Reveals Complex Structure, Diverse Plasma Populations In Jupiter's Magnetotail 09/28/07 SpaceDaily: Maneuver Puts New Horizons On A Straight Path To Pluto 06/29/07 SpaceDaily: New Horizons Slips Into Electronic Slumber 06/05/07 SpaceDaily: Full Set Of Jupiter Close-Approach Data Reaches Home 05/01/07 NASA/Science: Fantastic Flyby 03/28/07 SpaceDaily: New Horizons Gets A Memory Bitted Jammed 02/16/07 SpaceDaily: All Calm On Approach To Jupiter For Flyby 02/09/07 SpaceDaily: New Horizons SWAP Instrument Observes Solar Wind Interactions Before Jupiter Encounter 01/24/07 SpaceDaily: One Year Down, Eight to Go, On The Road to Pluto
03/13/08 ESA Science: The puzzling 'eye of a hurricane' on Venus 02/22/08 SpaceDaily: The Light And Dark Of Venus 02/05/08 Astrobiology Magazine: Mapping Gases 12/05/07 SpaceDaily: The Restless Atmosphere Of Venus 02/27/08 SpaceDaily: How The Atmospheres Of Mars And Venus Are Affected By Carbon Monoxide 12/05/07 SpaceDaily: The Unexpected Temperature Profile Of Venus's Atmosphere 12/02/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Earth-like Venus 11/28/07 Space.com: Venus May Be Earth's Hellish Twin 09/03/07 ESA Science: 500 days at Venus, and the surprises keep coming 05/23/07 ESA Science: Ground - based observatories join forces with Venus Express 05/07/07 ESA Science: Venus Express' infrared camera goes filming 04/03/07 ESA Science: Tracking alien turbulences with Venus Express
02/14/08 Space.com: See Mars in 3-D 01/28/08 SpaceDaily: Traces Of The Martian Past In The Terby Crater 12/12/07 SpaceDaily: Mars Express Watches A Dust Storm Engulf Mars 12/03/07 SpaceDaily: Noctis Labyrinthus, Labyrinth Of The Night 11/28/07 SpaceFlight Now: Mars Express: First global map of martian ionosphere 11/23/07 ESA Science: Mars Express - 5000 orbits and counting 11/19/07 SpaceDaily: Mars Express Creates First Global Map Of Martian Ionosphere 11/08/07 Space.com: Odd Martian Terrain Examined 11/01/07 ESA Science: Mars Express probes the Red Planet's most unusual deposits 09/12/07 ESA Science: The mysterious ridges at the mouth of Tiu Valles 08/01/07 ESA Science: Impact Craters in Tyrrhena Terra 07/19/07 SpaceDaily: Layers Exposed In Crater Near Mawrth Vallis 07/13/07 ESA Science: The origin of perennial water-ice at the South Pole of Mars 06/28/07 ESA Science: Tectonic signatures at Aeolis Mensae 04/05/07 SpaceDaily: MARSIS Radar Estimates The Volume Of Water In The South Pole Of Mars 03/15/07 ESA Science: Mars' South Pole Ice Deep and Wide 02/13/07 SpaceDaily: The First Hiking Maps Of Mars 01/25/07 Space.com: Mars' Missing Air Might Just be Hiding 01/22/07 SpaceDaily: German HRSC Onboard Mars Express Now In Its Third Year
11/16/07 SpaceDaily: Watching Galaxies Grow Old Gracefully 08/16/07 NASA: Speeding-Bullet Star Leaves Enormous Streak Across Sky 07/20/07 SpaceFlight Now: Galaxy Evolution Explorer spies band of stars
04/15/08 NASA: NASA Extends Cassini's Grand Tour of Saturn 04/01/08 Astrobiology Magazine: The Extraordinary Ecosystems of Enceladus 03/27/08 Space.com: Saturn Storm Has Hurricane-Like Features 03/27/08 Space.com: Seeds of Life Found Near Saturn 03/24/08 National Geographic: Icy Moon Tethys Had Ancient Underground Ocean 03/23/08 Astrobiology Magazine: Titan's Hidden Ocean 03/19/08 Astrobiology Magazine: A Brief Enceladus Shower 03/18/08 NASA/Science: The Vanishing Rings of Saturn 03/06/08 NASA: Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings 02/26/08 Astrobiology Magazine: The Enceladus Enigma 02/26/08 SpaceDaily: High Energy Electron Holes Reveal Unseen Rings 02/13/08 Astrobiology Magazine: Titan Oil Reserves 02/13/08 Astrobiology Magazine: Plumbing Enceladus 02/06/08 SpaceDaily: Case builds for water on Saturn moon 02/06/08 SpaceDaily: The Giant Sponge Of Saturn 01/31/08 NASA: Journey to Saturn From Your Computer 01/16/08 SpaceDaily: Oscillations found in Saturn's rings 01/03/08 NASA: Hot Cyclones Churn at Both Ends of Saturn 01/03/08 SpaceDaily: A Mimas Of A View Out Saturn Way 01/02/08 SpaceDaily: Unveiling The Mountains Of Titan 12/18/07 SpaceDaily: Hot Spot On Enceladus Causes Plumes 12/14/07 SpaceDaily: Cassini Captures Best View Yet Of Saturn's Ring Currents 12/13/07 SpaceDaily: Saturn Rings May Be Old Timers 12/12/07 SpaceFlight Now: Planetary scientists close in on Saturn's elusive rotation 12/06/07 NASA: Images of Saturn's Small Moons Tell the Story of Their Origins 11/29/07 SpaceDaily: Organic Building Blocks Discovered In Titan's Atmosphere 10/25/07 SpaceDaily: New CU-Boulder Study Confirms First-Known Belt Of Moonlets In Saturn Rings 10/18/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Fueling Hot Jets 10/16/07 SpaceDaily: Inspiring Views Celebrate Cassini's Diamond Anniversary 10/12/07 NASA/Science: New Lakes Discovered on Titan 10/11/07 SpaceDaily: Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources Of Jets On Enceladus 10/08/07 ESA Science: Cassini on the trail of a runaway mystery 10/03/07 SpaceFlight Now: Though colder than Earth, Titan is tropical in nature 09/26/07 Space.com: Huygens Data Paint Turbulent Picture of Titan 09/12/07 NASA: Saturn's Moon Iapetus Is the Yin-and-Yang of the Solar System 08/17/07 SpaceDaily: Frigid Enceladus: An Unlikely Harbor For Life 08/03/07 ESA Science: Possible origin of Saturn's mysterious G ring 07/17/07 NASA: Saturn's Old Moon Iapetus Retains Its Youthful Figure 07/11/07 SpaceDaily: Ring Herding 07/04/07 NASA: NASA Finds Hydrocarbons on Saturn's Moon Hyperion 06/14/07 NASA: Cassini Finds Saturn Moons are Active 06/12/07 Space.com: Earth's Future Glimpsed on Titan 06/01/07 ESA Science: Building our new view of Titan 05/24/07 SpaceDaily: Coasts And Drowned Mountains 05/22/07 NASA: Cassini 'Cat Scan' Maps Clumps in Saturn's Rings 05/21/07 SpaceDaily: Around Iapetus Way 05/11/07 SpaceDaily: Cassini Spacecraft Reveals Evidence Of Tholin Formation At High Altitudes In Titan's Atmosphere 04/05/07 SpaceDaily: Cassini Highlights The Enceladus Surprise Packet 03/27/07 NASA: Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn 03/26/07 Space.com: Astronomers Puzzled by Titan's Missing Craters 03/22/07 ESA Science: Enceladus geysers mask the length of Saturn's day 02/06/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Titan's Winter Storm 02/05/07 SpaceDaily: Saturn and Its Complex Family Of Moons and Rings Unveiled 02/01/07 ESA Science: Cassini images mammoth cloud engulfing Titan's North Pole 01/26/07 SpaceFlight Now: Psychedelic Saturn 01/26/07 SpaceFlight Now: Shadows on ice 01/26/07 SpaceFlight Now: Pan's progress 01/25/07 SpaceDaily: The Jet Stream Of Titan 01/17/07 SpaceDaily: Map Of Titan With Labels 01/09/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Titan's Liquid Lakes
11/27/07 SpaceFlight Now: Voyager 2 to reach major milestone in space 09/18/07 SpaceDaily: The Light Of Alien Life 09/09/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Voyager at 30 08/20/07 NASA: Pioneering NASA Spacecraft Mark Thirty Years of Flight
02/28/08 SpaceDaily: Japanese scientists eye new planet 02/16/08 Astrobiology Magazine: An Earth Hidden in Dust 02/15/08 Astrobiology Magazine: Planets of Scale 01/11/08 SpaceDaily: Search For New Planets Part Of Ambitious New Sky Survey 01/02/08 Space.com: Young Planet Orbits Sun-Like Star 11/08/07 Space.com: Newfound Planets are Scorching Hot 11/06/07 NASA: Scientists Discover Record Fifth Planet Orbiting Nearby Star 09/20/07 SpaceFlight Now: Planet discovered that offers clues to Earth's future 08/07/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Orbiting a Red Giant 08/02/07 SpaceFlight Now: Planet orbiting a giant red star discovered 06/20/07 SpaceDaily: Computer Models Suggest Planetary And Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres 06/14/07 Space.com: Planets: The Grand Tally 06/13/07 SpaceDaily: Massive Transiting Planet with 31-hour Year Found Around Distant Star 06/11/07 Space.com: Trickle of Planet Discoveries Becomes a Flood 06/03/07 SpaceFlight Now: Planet found with a year lasting just 31 hours 06/01/07 SpaceDaily: NASA Space Telescope Gives Scientists Depth Perception 05/02/07 SpaceFlight Now: Astronomers discover a super-massive planet 05/01/07 Space.com: Dark Future Predicted for the Universe 04/25/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Astronomers Find Habitable Earth-like Planet . Terrestrial Planet Finder . Discovery of Extrasolar Planets . The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
  (Photos by NASA) 05/14/02 Space.com: 'Mars Meteorite's' Link to Life Questioned 03/20/02 Space.com: Controversy Continues: Mars Meteorite Clings to Life - Or Does It?
02/27/08 SpaceDaily: Crystal Bells Stay Silent As Physicists Look For Dark Matter 02/21/08 SpaceDaily: Cosmologists glimpse biggest 'dark matter' structure ever 02/11/08 Space.com: New Cosmic Theory Unites Dark Forces 01/17/08 Space.com: Pools of Invisible Matter Mapped in Space 12/10/07 Space.com: Missing Matter Caught in Tangled Cosmic Webs 12/03/07 SpaceDaily: Dark Energy -- 10 Years On 10/29/07 Space.com: Scientists Say Dark Matter Doesn't Exist 10/25/07 SpaceDaily: Dwarf Galaxies Need Dark Matter Too 10/08/07 Space.com: Invisible Matter Won't Disappear Anytime Soon 10/03/07 SpaceDaily: The Dark Matter Of The Universe Has A Long Lifetime 09/11/07 Space.com: Small 'Hobbit' Galaxies Made Almost Entirely of Dark Matter 08/17/07 SpaceDaily: Dark Matter Mystery Deepens In Cosmic Train Wreck 05/29/07 SpaceDaily: Matters Beyond Beyond 05/03/07 SpaceDaily: New VERITAS Telescope Array May Help Find Dark Matter 04/19/07 SpaceDaily: Dark Matter Charted Out To Five Billion Light Years 02/12/07 SpaceDaily: Clustering Of Quasars 10 Billion Light Years Away Determine Relationship With Dark Matter 01/23/07 SpaceDaily: Dark Energy May Be Vacuum 01/07/07 ESA Science: First 3D map of the Universe's dark matter scaffolding 01/03/07 SpaceDaily: Radio Telescopes Could Make Dark Matter Visible
Hyakutake / Ikeya-Seki / Greatest Comets of All Time 01/04/08 Space.com: Old Comets for a New Year 11/25/07 SpaceFlight Now: A last look at Comet Holmes 11/15/07 Space.com: Incredible Comet Bigger than the Sun 10/05/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Catching the Tail of a Comet 10/01/07 NASA/Science: The Sun Rips Off a Comet's Tail 09/26/07 ESA Science: SOHO's new catch: its first officially periodic comet 08/23/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Comet Cools Clovis 08/17/07 SpaceDaily: Comet Probes Reveal Evidence Of Origin Of Life 07/30/07 SpaceDaily: A Conteki Return To Encke 07/30/07 SpaceDaily: Exploring The Comets Of Sol 07/24/07 SpaceDaily: Life of a Comet Hunter: Messier and Astrobiology 07/08/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Dynamic Duo 03/30/07 Space.com: New Green Comet Set for April Show 03/26/07 Space.com: Green Comet Spotted Down Under 01/17/07 SpaceDaily: Brightest Comet Ever Observed By Soho 01/16/07 SpaceDaily: Brightest Comet In 40 Years Dazzles
11/13/07 ESA Science: Rosetta swing-by a success 09/11/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Lumpy, Bumpy, Fluffy and Layered 03/20/07 ESA Science: OSIRIS camera on Rosetta obtains 'light curve' of asteroid Steins 02/15/07 SpaceDaily: Rosetta Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre On Route For Mars Flyby 01/26/07 ESA Science: Lutetia asteroid in Rosetta's spotlight
02/08/08 SpaceDaily: NASA Comet Dust Lands In Manchester 01/31/08 Astrobiology Magazine: A Comet Continuum 01/04/08 SpaceDaily: Stardust Formed Close To Sun 08/08/07 SpaceDaily: Stardust On Way Back To Tempel 1 04/19/07 SpaceDaily: UK Scientists Sift Superfine Stardust 04/10/07 SpaceDaily: Deep Pockets On Earth Goes Along Way In Deep Space 02/07/07 SpaceDaily: Stardust Responds On First Command From Earth 01/06/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Astrobiology Top 10: Stardust
01/01/08 Space.com: Comet Probe Flies Past Earth 12/13/07 NASA: Deep Impact has New Mission for New Year 04/09/07 SpaceDaily: Deep Impact Extended Mission To Probe Deeper Into Solar System Origin 04/04/06 SpaceFlight Now: Massive amounts of water released by comet hit
- HETE-2 Satellite 03/20/08 SpaceDaily: Naked-eye Gamma Ray Burst 01/09/08 SpaceDaily: Mystery gamma-ray source pinned to vampire stars 01/04/08 SpaceDaily: LIGO Sheds Light On Cosmic Event 07/13/07 SpaceDaily: GROND Takes Off 05/23/07 SpaceDaily: Gamma-Ray Bursts Active Longer Than Thought 02/12/07 SpaceDaily: Magnetic Explosions In The Distant Universe Get The Gamma Going
- Major Meteor Showers in 2007 04/03/08 Space.com: The Mother of All Meteor Storms 03/13/08 Space.com: Meteor Videotaped Plunging to Earth 03/11/08 Space.com: Big Crater Carved By Mysterious Meteorite / PHOTO 10/11/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Robotic Rockhounds 08/07/07 SpaceDaily: Crystals On Meteorite Reveal Clues To Early Solar System Evolution 08/07/07 Space.com: Mars Meteorites Create Water Mystery 07/15/07 Space.com: Forest Fire Leads to Ancient Meteorite Discovery 05/08/07 SpaceDaily: Researchers Find Meteorite Fragments In Altai 12/03/06 Astrobiology Magazine: Finding Our Origin in a Meteorite
· Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR-Shoemaker) - About Asteroid Itokawa VIDEO: The Asteroid Paradox 04/17/08 SpaceDaily: Osmium Tracks Earth Impacts 04/10/08 Space.com: Seawater Holds Clues to Asteroid Impacts 03/25/08 Astrobiology Magazine: The Oldest Asteroids 03/17/08 SpaceDaily: Two college students find asteroid 02/19/08 Astrobiology Magazine: Asteroid Triple Threat 02/13/08 Space.com: Triple Asteroid Found Near Earth 01/29/08 NASA: Asteroid Zooms by Earth / See also... 01/03/08 Astrobiology Magazine: Small Rocks Make Big Impacts 12/21/07 NASA: Astronomers Monitor Asteroid to Pass Near Mars 12/19/07 National Geographic: Earth-Asteroid Collision Formed Moon Later Than Thought 12/19/07 Space.com: Small Asteroids Pose Big New Threat 12/17/07 Space.com: The Enduring Mysteries of Asteroids 11/26/07 SpaceDaily: Predicting Apophis' Earth Encounters In 2029 And 2036 10/18/07 Space.com: Potentially Dangerous Space Rock Lost and Found 10/16/07 Astrobiology Magazine: Analyzing Apophis 10/09/07 SpaceDaily: Long-Lost, Dangerous Asteroid Is Found Again 09/25/07 SpaceDaily: Thompson Files: To save humanity 09/22/07 ESA Science: The Threat of Small Rocks 09/05/07 Space.com: Dino-Killing Asteroid Traced to Cosmic Collision 08/21/07 Space.com: Strange Asteroids Baffle Scientists 06/15/07 NASA/Science: Voyage to the Giant Asteroids 04/20/07 SpaceDaily: Scientists Find Migrating Regolith On Tiny Asteroid Itokawa 04/17/07 SpaceDaily: Hayabusa Mission Struggles On 03/30/07 SpaceDaily: Amateur And Professionals Astronomers Combine Observations To Produce Double Asteroid Image 01/10/07 SpaceDaily: New Evidence Of Extrasolar Asteroid Belt
Astrobiology Institute: "...the scientific study of the origin, distribution, and future of life in the universe" (NASA) The Astrobiology Web: "Your Online Guide to the Living Universe" The Mystery of Human Origins: From the present day search to the seeding of life on Earth 01/10/08 Space.com: Astrobiology 101: Where Teachers are the Students
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