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Weather forces delays to drilling effort at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier — Static01.nyt.com

Weather forces delays to drilling effort at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier

A 10-person team aboard the icebreaker Araon hoping to drill deep into Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier has been delayed by rapidly changing weather that has repeatedly forced helicopter flights to turn back. Expedition members have set foot on the glacier’s fractured surface, but attempts to reach the planned drilling

NASA adds FAIMM to ROSES-2025 for researchers working on Moon and Mars AI — Nasa.gov

NASA adds FAIMM to ROSES-2025 for researchers working on Moon and Mars AI

NASA has added a new program element, C.12 Foundational Artificial Intelligence for the Moon and Mars (FAIMM), to ROSES-2025 through Amendment 37 to enable individual researchers to join teams designing science and exploration applications for large, general AI models for the Moon and Mars. FAIMM is intended to bring

Asal Naseri is acting associate flight director for NASA heliophysics — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Asal Naseri is acting associate flight director for NASA heliophysics

Dr. Asal Naseri is the acting associate flight director for NASA’s heliophysics division in the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. She leads the programmatic and technical management of the flight portfolio for more than 20 operational missions and several in development. In this role she ensures missions meet technical,

ACF: Australian government approved clearing of more than 57,000ha of threatened habitat in 2025 — I.guim.co.uk

ACF: Australian government approved clearing of more than 57,000ha of threatened habitat in 2025

More than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat was approved for destruction by the Australian government in 2025 — the most in 15 years, according to analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). The ACF’s annual “extinction wrapped” report said the habitat greenlit for land clearing was about 10

Weather and low clouds stall helicopter operations at Thwaites Glacier expedition — Static01.nyt.com

Weather and low clouds stall helicopter operations at Thwaites Glacier expedition

A 10-person team aboard the icebreaker Araon attempting to drill into Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier has been hampered by rapidly changing weather and low clouds that have repeatedly grounded helicopter flights, expedition members reported. The team hopes to bore into the glacier to install instruments and study why it is

NASA opens Mars to Table challenge to design Earth‑independent food system — Nasa.gov

NASA opens Mars to Table challenge to design Earth‑independent food system

NASA has launched the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table, a global competition inviting chefs, innovators, culinary experts, higher‑education students and citizen scientists to design a complete, Earth‑independent food system for long‑duration space missions. The effort is tied to Artemis II, which will send four astronauts

NASA says Earth Science Senior Review will finish with May 2026 report — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA says Earth Science Senior Review will finish with May 2026 report

NASA's Earth Science Division (ESD) will conduct a Senior Review in 2026 and deliver a final report in May 2026, the agency said in its frequently asked questions for the 2026 Senior Review. According to NASA, the timing is compliant with the 2023 NASA Authorization Act requirement for

Hubble captures young stellar objects in NGC 1333 — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble captures young stellar objects in NGC 1333

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the star-forming region NGC 1333 that shows a diverse collection of young stellar objects, including a protostar with a protoplanetary disk and several Orion variable stars. To the left of the image an actively forming protostar lights a surrounding

Webb shows most hot dust in Circinus feeds its central black hole — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Webb shows most hot dust in Circinus feeds its central black hole

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the sharpest image yet of the central region of the Circinus Galaxy, about 13 million light-years away, and found that most of the hot, infrared‑emitting dust is located near the galaxy’s supermassive black hole. The research was published Tuesday in

Study finds many Galápagos sea lions keep nursing into adulthood — Static01.nyt.com

Study finds many Galápagos sea lions keep nursing into adulthood

A long-running study of Galápagos sea lions found that many individuals continue to suckle from their mothers well after they can hunt, mate and fend for themselves. The observations come from a single population of the endangered pinniped Zalophus wollebaeki living on Caamaño Islet, monitored by the Galápagos Sea Lion

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose 2.4% in 2025 as coal use rebounded — Static01.nyt.com

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose 2.4% in 2025 as coal use rebounded

America’s greenhouse gas emissions rose 2.4 percent in 2025 after two years of decline, according to estimates published Tuesday by the Rhodium Group. The researchers identified two main reasons for the uptick: U.S. electricity demand grew at an unusually fast pace — driven in part by an expansion

Hurricane Melissa stirred a vast bright-blue carbonate plume south of Jamaica — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hurricane Melissa stirred a vast bright-blue carbonate plume south of Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica on October 28, 2025 as a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 295 kilometers per hour (185 miles per hour), churned carbonate sediment off the island and produced a bright-blue plume visible in satellite images on October 30, 2025. NASA’s Terra

Logic puzzle solution: Andy 4, Bea 6, Celine 0 — I.guim.co.uk

Logic puzzle solution: Andy 4, Bea 6, Celine 0

Earlier today the setter of a logic puzzle posted as a pre-commemoration of World Logic Day (January 14) published the solution: with the priority that avoiding being the sole or joint most or least is more important than maximising cookies, Andy takes 4, Bea takes 6 and Celine ends with

Amanda Clayton serves as Projects Manager for NASA DEVELOP Program — Nasa.gov

Amanda Clayton serves as Projects Manager for NASA DEVELOP Program

Amanda Clayton has been the Projects Manager for the NASA DEVELOP Program since October 2018. Prior to that she was a DEVELOP Project Coordination Fellow and Senior Fellow at NASA LaRC and a DEVELOP participant at NASA GSFC. She holds an M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of

NASA posts corrections and documents for ROSES-25 Science Activation (F.6) — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA posts corrections and documents for ROSES-25 Science Activation (F.6)

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has posted minor corrections and additional documents for the F.6 Science Activation (SciAct) element of the ROSES-25 solicitation. The SciAct program encourages broad public participation in science through activities and resources developed by collaborative project teams that draw on NASA SMD assets, including science

NASA opens media accreditation for Artemis II at Johnson Space Center — Nasa.gov

NASA opens media accreditation for Artemis II at Johnson Space Center

NASA has opened media accreditation to attend Artemis II mission activities at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where flight controllers in mission control will manage the test flight after liftoff. Artemis II is targeted to launch no earlier Friday, Feb. 6, and will send NASA astronauts Reid

NASA opens media accreditation for Crew-12 SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral — Nasa.gov

NASA opens media accreditation for Crew-12 SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral

Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA’s 12th rotational mission using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA said it is targeting no earlier

NASA adds COMPASS program element to ROSES-2025 to fund academic partnerships — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA adds COMPASS program element to ROSES-2025 to fund academic partnerships

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

A quarter-century on the ISS: microgravity research benefits Earth and future missions — Nasa.gov

A quarter-century on the ISS: microgravity research benefits Earth and future missions

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting experiments that are transforming life on Earth and shaping plans for future exploration. In microgravity, cells grow in three dimensions, proteins form higher-quality crystals, and biological systems reveal details hidden by gravity, enabling

NASA releases final solicitation for Landslide Change Characterization Experiment — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA releases final solicitation for Landslide Change Characterization Experiment

NASA's ROSES-2025 Amendment 34 releases the final text for A.6, the Earth Venture Suborbital-4 Landslide Change Characterization Experiment (LACCE) Science Team solicitation, seeking proposals to build the full LACCE Science Team. The solicitation calls for team members who will provide airborne and ground-based measurements, data processing and

Mike Fincke transfers ISS command to Sergey Kud-Sverchkov as Crew-11 prepares to depart — Images-assets.nasa.gov

Mike Fincke transfers ISS command to Sergey Kud-Sverchkov as Crew-11 prepares to depart

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke handed over command of the International Space Station to Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov at 2:35 p.m. EST today. The Change of Command Ceremony precedes the targeted departure of Fincke with Zena Cardman of NASA, Kimiya Yui of JAXA, and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos aboard

John Wu to Discuss Inductive Biases at AI/ML STIG Lecture on 12 Jan 2026 — Assets.science.nasa.gov

John Wu to Discuss Inductive Biases at AI/ML STIG Lecture on 12 Jan 2026

John Wu of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will present on inductive biases as part of the AI/ML STIG Lecture Series on 12 Jan 2026. Organisers say lecture notes and slides will be posted later on the GitHub repo. They also intend to use Slido for audience Q&

Hubble team including Dr. Rachael Beaton finds new type of astronomical object — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble team including Dr. Rachael Beaton finds new type of astronomical object

A team including Dr. Rachael Beaton of the Space Telescope Science Institute used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a new type of astronomical object, according to a NASA Science post. Dr. Beaton is on the leadership council of the Cosmic Origins Stars Science Interest Group (Stars SIG)

Engineer Richard Wear supports propulsion testing at NASA Stennis during Artemis II preparations — Nasa.gov

Engineer Richard Wear supports propulsion testing at NASA Stennis during Artemis II preparations

Richard Wear said it is an honor to be working at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, as NASA prepares to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years on the Artemis II mission. Wear is acting chief of the

Carruthers Geocorona Observatory reaches planned L1 halo orbit — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Carruthers Geocorona Observatory reaches planned L1 halo orbit

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has reached its target orbit, positioning the spacecraft to capture the first repeated observations of the ultraviolet glow from Earth’s outer atmosphere, the geocorona. The achievement was confirmed following its third and final orbital maneuver, a two-minute thruster fire on Jan. 8, and the