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NASA opens TESS General Investigator proposals for Cycle 9; Phase-1 due March 10, 2026 — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA opens TESS General Investigator proposals for Cycle 9; Phase-1 due March 10, 2026

NASA has solicited proposals under the ROSES-25 D.3.D Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) General Investigator (GI) Program, an announcement dated 16 January 2026 said. The opportunity seeks proposals for the acquisition and analysis of new scientific data from TESS taken during Cycle 9, covering Sector 108 starting 7

NASA Postdoctoral Program sets next application deadline for 1 March 2026 — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA Postdoctoral Program sets next application deadline for 1 March 2026

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) has set its next application deadline for 1 March 2026 for scientists seeking one- to three-year fellowship appointments. The NPP offers U.S. and international researchers opportunities to advance their work while contributing to NASA’s scientific goals. Fellows are selected by competitive peer review

NASA plans single-step selection for 2026 Astrophysics SMEX AO — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA plans single-step selection for 2026 Astrophysics SMEX AO

The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) has issued a third Community Announcement via SAM.gov updating a draft Announcement of Opportunity and saying it intends to solicit investigations for the Astrophysics Explorers Program in the second quarter of calendar year 2026. SMD’s Astrophysics Division plans to release an AO

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 to hold postflight news conference in Houston — Nasa.gov

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 to hold postflight news conference in Houston

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 will hold a news conference at 2:15 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 21, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss their science expedition aboard the International Space Station. The crew includes NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya

SpaceX Crew-11 returns to Houston after five-month ISS mission — Nasa.gov

SpaceX Crew-11 returns to Houston after five-month ISS mission

The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission have arrived at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they will continue standard postflight reconditioning and evaluations. The crew — NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov — splashed down on

Curiosity right Navcam captured cylindrical-projection images on Sol 4744 — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Curiosity right Navcam captured cylindrical-projection images on Sol 4744

NASA's Curiosity rover captured right navigation camera images in a cylindrical projection on December 11, 2025, during Sols 4744–4741 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 232, site number 120. The local mean solar time for the image exposures ranged from 11 AM to 2 PM.

Curiosity right-navcam images from Sol 4748 (Dec 15, 2025) — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Curiosity right-navcam images from Sol 4748 (Dec 15, 2025)

Curiosity took right navigation camera images on Sol 4748 (December 15, 2025) of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 346, site number 120. The images are presented as cylindrical projections. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was 1 PM, and each Navcam image has a 45

NASA Science seeks reviewers for B.6 Heliophysics technology and instrument development — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA Science seeks reviewers for B.6 Heliophysics technology and instrument development

NASA Science is seeking panelists and external (email) reviewers for B.6 Heliophysics Technology and Instrument Development for Science. The announcement invites participants to serve as either panelists or external email reviewers and states, "Here are the rules:" though the specific rules were not included in the provided

Artemis II to send four astronauts around the Moon on Orion test flight — Nasa.gov

Artemis II to send four astronauts around the Moon on Orion test flight

Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed test flight in the Artemis campaign. Four astronauts — NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — will fly aboard the Orion spacecraft to confirm systems operate as designed in the deep space environment. The mission

Qiguang Yang, Senior Research Scientist on CLARREO Pathfinder at NASA Langley — Nasa.gov

Qiguang Yang, Senior Research Scientist on CLARREO Pathfinder at NASA Langley

Qiguang Yang is a senior research scientist and contractor working on the CLARREO Pathfinder (CPF) Mission at NASA Langley Research Center. Yang is listed in the Chemistry and Dynamics Branch of the Science Directorate at Langley and is identified with the CPF Mission in the source material. The information appears

NASA planetary scientist says Uranus upper atmosphere is likely cooler than Voyager 2 indicated — Nasa.gov

NASA planetary scientist says Uranus upper atmosphere is likely cooler than Voyager 2 indicated

William Saunders is a planetary scientist at NASA Langley Research Center and Analytical Mechanics Associates who studies the upper atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune. In his PhD work he used dozens of Earth-based measurements and concluded that the Voyager 2 1986 results showing an extremely hot thermosphere were likely flawed

Three Expedition 74 crew remain on ISS after Crew-11 splashdown — Images-assets.nasa.gov

Three Expedition 74 crew remain on ISS after Crew-11 splashdown

Three Expedition 74 crew members continue to reside aboard the International Space Station following the return to Earth of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission on Thursday. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov are back on Earth after completing 167 days

2026 astronomical highlights, including planetary parade and eclipses — Nasa.gov

2026 astronomical highlights, including planetary parade and eclipses

Skywatchers can expect a busy 2026, with notable meteor showers, planetary gatherings and Moon events. The year also marks the 20th anniversary of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Observatory, which was established as an engine test site in 1958, converted to a solar observatory in 1968, and transformed into

SPHEREx mission team wins 2026 Sylvia A. Earle Award for Exploration Excellence — Assets.science.nasa.gov

SPHEREx mission team wins 2026 Sylvia A. Earle Award for Exploration Excellence

On Jan. 15, 2026, the Explorers Club awarded the 2026 Sylvia A. Earle Award for Exploration Excellence to the SPHEREx mission team, including Jamie Bock, SPHEREx principal investigator at Caltech; Olivier Doré, SPHEREx project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and John Wisniewski, SPHEREx program scientist at NASA Headquarters.

NASA lists Geosphere-supported publications and research highlights — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA lists Geosphere-supported publications and research highlights

Geosphere-supported research publications and highlights are available through NASA Science via several linked resources. The listed resources include NASA Earth System Science Research Annual Reports and Highlighted Work, NASA Earth Science Division Publications, and Missions and Science Team Publications. The post "Geosphere Publications and Research Highlights" appeared first

Hubble image shows Lupus 3 star-forming cloud in Scorpius — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble image shows Lupus 3 star-forming cloud in Scorpius

The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged Lupus 3, a star-forming cloud about 500 light‑years away in the constellation Scorpius. The image shows white wisps of gas swirling through the region and a dark dust cloud in the lower-left. Bright T Tauri stars are visible at the left, bottom

Researchers date Mount Rainier’s Electron Mudflow to 1507 — Static01.nyt.com

Researchers date Mount Rainier’s Electron Mudflow to 1507

A team of geoscientists reports that the largest Mount Rainier mudflow of the past millennium, the Electron Mudflow, occurred in the year 1507. The finding is based on tree rings from Douglas firs unearthed in the Orting area below the volcano. Lahars — dense flows of mud, rock and water — are

Brooks: Neuroscience likens the mind to shifting networks, not fixed modules — Static01.nyt.com

Brooks: Neuroscience likens the mind to shifting networks, not fixed modules

David Brooks writes in a New York Times opinion essay (Jan. 16, 2026) that modern neuroscience increasingly portrays the mind as a dynamic network of interacting regions — a system more like a murmuration of starlings than a set of fixed modules. Brooks contrasts earlier modular thinking, which assigned functions to

Aviculturist uses crane costumes at Baraboo centre to raise and teach chicks — I.guim.co.uk

Aviculturist uses crane costumes at Baraboo centre to raise and teach chicks

A senior aviculturist at the International Crane Foundation’s headquarters in Baraboo, Wisconsin, wears crane costumes to raise and teach chicks that cannot be reared by adult birds. The foundation, set up in 1973, aims to safeguard the world’s 15 crane species, most of which are endangered or vulnerable

Phytoplankton bloom encircles Chatham Islands east of New Zealand — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Phytoplankton bloom encircles Chatham Islands east of New Zealand

A ring of bright green and blue phytoplankton swirls encircled the remote Chatham Islands, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of New Zealand’s South Island, in satellite imagery captured on January 10, 2026. The image was taken by the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the NOAA-20 satellite

Curiosity right Navcam images on Sol 4728 captured in cylindrical projection — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Curiosity right Navcam images on Sol 4728 captured in cylindrical projection

NASA’s Curiosity rover acquired images from its right Navigation Camera on Sol 4728 (November 24, 2025) using a cylindrical projection. The images were taken over Sols 4728-4711 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission during drive 82 at site number 120. Local mean solar time for the image exposures ranged

Curiosity captures right Navcam cylindrical image on Sol 4741 — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Curiosity captures right Navcam cylindrical image on Sol 4741

Curiosity took right navigation camera images on December 08, 2025, Sol 4741 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission. The images were taken at drive 232, site number 120, with a local mean solar time for the exposures of 2 PM. Each Navcam image has a 45 degree field of view,

SpaceX Crew-11 returns after ISS mission, delivering more than 850 hours of research — Images-assets.nasa.gov

SpaceX Crew-11 returns after ISS mission, delivering more than 850 hours of research

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 — NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov — returned to Earth after a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. During their stay, Cardman, Fincke, and Yui contributed more than 850 hours of research aimed at preparing humanity

Daniel Phoenix, senior data scientist at NASA Langley Research Center — Nasa.gov

Daniel Phoenix, senior data scientist at NASA Langley Research Center

Daniel Phoenix is a Senior Data Scientist (contractor) in the Lidar Sciences Branch of the Science Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center. He earned a Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 2019; his dissertation focused on using numerical simulations to understand the effects of tropopause-overshooting thunderstorms