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Four astronauts return after medical evacuation from the International Space Station — Static01.nyt.com

Four astronauts return after medical evacuation from the International Space Station

Four astronauts returned safely to Earth after an early departure from the International Space Station prompted by a medical issue affecting one crewmember, NASA said. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at 3:41 a.m. Eastern, and NASA administrator Jared Isaacman

NASA adds two retired F-15s to Armstrong fleet for supersonic tests — Images-assets.nasa.gov

NASA adds two retired F-15s to Armstrong fleet for supersonic tests

Two retired U.S. Air Force F-15 jets have joined the flight research fleet at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, to support supersonic flight research for NASA’s Flight Demonstrations and Capabilities project, including testing for the Quesst mission’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. One

Four Crew‑11 astronauts splash down after medical evacuation from ISS — Static01.nyt.com

Four Crew‑11 astronauts splash down after medical evacuation from ISS

NASA concluded the safe return to Earth of four astronauts on Thursday after one crew member experienced a medical issue aboard the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke of NASA, Kimiya Yui of JAXA and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos splashed down in the

NASA and partners co-direct Josep Comas i Solà astrobiology summer school in Spain — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA and partners co-direct Josep Comas i Solà astrobiology summer school in Spain

The Josep Comas i Solà International Summer School in Astrobiology is co-directed by the NASA Astrobiology Program and the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), INTA‑CSIC, at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP). It is held annually at the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander, Spain. The week-long program for graduate

Shan Kowalski, NASA Langley researcher focused on clouds, aerosols and ML — Nasa.gov

Shan Kowalski, NASA Langley researcher focused on clouds, aerosols and ML

Dr. Shan Kowalski is a scientific researcher at NASA Langley Research Center and a mother of two girls. She earned an M.S. (2007) and a Ph.D. (2011) in atmospheric science in France, conducting M.S. work with X-band and K-band radars and Ph.D. work using the space-borne

Webb finds no thick atmospheres on TRAPPIST-1 b and c; studies continue — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Webb finds no thick atmospheres on TRAPPIST-1 b and c; studies continue

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is deepening study of the TRAPPIST-1 system, a collection of at least seven Earth-sized rocky planets orbiting a red dwarf about 40 light-years away. Follow-up work after the initial 2015 ground-based detections established the system’s seven roughly Earth-sized worlds, with Spitzer measurements used

NASA satellite data helps Maine oyster farmers pick sites and predict growth — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA satellite data helps Maine oyster farmers pick sites and predict growth

Maine oyster farmers are using NASA satellite data to choose where to grow and to estimate how quickly oysters will reach market size. Oyster farmer Luke Saindon of The World Is Your Oyster in Wiscasset, Maine, used satellite maps and a site-selection tool created by University of Maine researchers to

GR SIG Seminar on 23 Jan 2026 to include FIGSAG update by Jeremy Perkins — Assets.science.nasa.gov

GR SIG Seminar on 23 Jan 2026 to include FIGSAG update by Jeremy Perkins

NASA Science lists a GR SIG Seminar on 23 Jan 2026 that includes an update from FIGSAG speaker Jeremy Perkins. The post also notes "Updates from AAS: Decadal Review Planning Seminar Connection" and carries a prompt to "Join the Seminar." The item appeared first on NASA

Four Crew-11 astronauts return to Earth after medical evacuation from ISS — Static01.nyt.com

Four Crew-11 astronauts return to Earth after medical evacuation from ISS

NASA said four astronauts returned safely to Earth after one crew member became ill on the International Space Station and was brought home early. The Crew-11 astronauts — Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke of NASA, Kimiya Yui of JAXA and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos — splashed down in the Pacific off San

U.S. funding cuts force scaling back of international agricultural research — Static01.nyt.com

U.S. funding cuts force scaling back of international agricultural research

Federal cuts to U.S. international development funding have led to the curtailing or closure of many global agricultural research projects, the New York Times reports, after the Trump administration dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D.). Until last year U.S.A.I.

NASA's OSDR Analysis Working Groups reuse mission data to study life in space — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA's OSDR Analysis Working Groups reuse mission data to study life in space

The Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups (OSDR AWGs) are teams of scientists, students and members of the public who analyze NASA mission and experiment data in the online Open Science Data Repository to study how terrestrial life responds to radiation‑rich, low‑gravity space environments. The online project

SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon splashes down off San Diego after 167-day mission — Nasa.gov

SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon splashes down off San Diego after 167-day mission

At 3:41 a.m. EST, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov splashed down off the coast of San Diego, California, completing a 167-day stay in space for the four-person crew. The mission returned to

Four Crew‑11 astronauts return to Earth after in‑orbit medical issue — Static01.nyt.com

Four Crew‑11 astronauts return to Earth after in‑orbit medical issue

Four astronauts returned to Earth after an in‑orbit medical issue prompted an early departure from the International Space Station, NASA said. A SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke of NASA, Kimiya Yui of JAXA and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos splashed down in the Pacific off San

Hubble unveils images of protoplanetary disks and protostars — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble unveils images of protoplanetary disks and protostars

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released a collection of new visible- and infrared-light images showing protoplanetary disks, the swirling gas-and-dust structures that surround forming stars. Visible-light frames show dark, planet-forming dust disks around hidden protostars with bipolar jets of gas traveling about 93 miles (150 km) per second. The visible

Four Crew‑11 astronauts return to Earth after medical evacuation from ISS — Static01.nyt.com

Four Crew‑11 astronauts return to Earth after medical evacuation from ISS

Four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego early Thursday after an early return from the International Space Station because one crew member became ill, NASA said. Jared Isaacman, the agency administrator, said after the landing, "The crew member of concern is doing fine." The

SpaceX Crew-11 splashes down off California after 167-day ISS mission — Nasa.gov

SpaceX Crew-11 splashes down off California after 167-day ISS mission

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission safely splashed down early Thursday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, concluding a more than five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov returned to

Zhejiang Tops Leiden Rankings as Harvard Falls to No. 3 in Research Output List — Static01.nyt.com

Zhejiang Tops Leiden Rankings as Harvard Falls to No. 3 in Research Output List

Harvard University has fallen to No. 3 on a global ranking of research output, with Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, taking the top spot on the Leiden Rankings, which measure academic publication and citation activity. The Leiden list, compiled by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University,

SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon splashes down off San Diego after early return — Nasa.gov

SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon splashes down off San Diego after early return

At 3:41 a.m. EST, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov splashed down off the coast of San Diego, California, completing a 167-day stay in space. The mission returned to Earth earlier than originally

SpaceX Crew-11 set for splashdown off San Diego coast — Images-assets.nasa.gov

SpaceX Crew-11 set for splashdown off San Diego coast

NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov are about an hour away from splashing down aboard their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of San Diego, California, and live coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime and the agency’s YouTube

Four astronauts return to Earth after ISS medical evacuation — Static01.nyt.com

Four astronauts return to Earth after ISS medical evacuation

Four astronauts are heading home after an earlier-than-scheduled departure from the International Space Station, a move NASA described as a "controlled medical evacuation," the first such exit from the I.S.S. in 25 years. The crew undocked around 5:20 p.m. on Wednesday and rode a

Fish-shaped clouds photographed over Lago Argentino likely lenticular, NASA scientists say — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Fish-shaped clouds photographed over Lago Argentino likely lenticular, NASA scientists say

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a group of fish-shaped clouds hovering over Lago Argentino in Patagonia on December 27, 2025. Determining the clouds' type and origin from the photograph alone is challenging, but several NASA scientists and university researchers offered a theory after reviewing the image.

NASA to roll Artemis II rocket to Pad 39B starting Jan. 17 — Nasa.gov

NASA to roll Artemis II rocket to Pad 39B starting Jan. 17

NASA is targeting no earlier than 7 a.m. EST on Saturday, Jan. 17, to begin rolling its integrated SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A pre-rollout mission

SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon undocks from ISS, returning earlier than planned — Nasa.gov

SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon undocks from ISS, returning earlier than planned

At 5:20 p.m. EST, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Following coverage of undocking, NASA’s return coverage continued with a real-time audio-only feed that includes astronaut conversations with mission control and live external video

John Wu to present on convolutional neural networks in NASA AI/ML STIG lecture — Assets.science.nasa.gov

John Wu to present on convolutional neural networks in NASA AI/ML STIG lecture

NASA Science listed an AI/ML STIG Lecture Series event for 19 Jan 2026 featuring a talk on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by John Wu of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The posting includes a "Meeting Connection" entry with the prompt "Join the Meeting." The

NASA adds COMPASS program to ROSES-2025 to fund center–university collaborations — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA adds COMPASS program to ROSES-2025 to fund center–university collaborations

NASA’s ROSES-2025 Amendment 36 creates a new program element, F.19, titled Collaborative Opportunities for Mentorship, Partnership and Academic Success in Science (COMPASS), to fund collaborations between NASA Centers and academic institutions aimed at advancing NASA’s scientific priorities and training the future STEM workforce. COMPASS prioritizes collaborations with