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ExoPAG 33 meeting held in Phoenix on Jan 3–4, 2026 — Assets.science.nasa.gov

ExoPAG 33 meeting held in Phoenix on Jan 3–4, 2026

ExoPAG 33 took place January 3–4, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona. The notice for the meeting appears as a post titled "ExoPAG 33" on the NASA Science website. The source provides only the date and location; no additional details about the meeting agenda, participants, or outcomes are given.

From Pop Keyboardist to Physics Communicator: Brian Cox’s New World Tour — Static01.nyt.com

From Pop Keyboardist to Physics Communicator: Brian Cox’s New World Tour

Brian Cox, the particle physicist known for bringing space to mainstream audiences, is launching a new world tour called "Emergence." The show, which mixes live presentation and spectacle, had warm-up performances in November in Redditch, England, and will visit places including Singapore, Serbia and Australia before reaching the

What to Watch in Space in 2026: Moon Missions, an Eclipse and New Telescopes — Static01.nyt.com

What to Watch in Space in 2026: Moon Missions, an Eclipse and New Telescopes

Several high-profile space events are expected in 2026, including crewed lunar flights, robotic landings, a total solar eclipse and the start of major astronomical surveys. Early in 2026 NASA plans to launch Artemis II, a roughly 10-day crewed mission that will send four astronauts around the moon and back. The

Pleistocene ostracod fossils in Qaidam Basin point to ancient East Asian bird flyway — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Pleistocene ostracod fossils in Qaidam Basin point to ancient East Asian bird flyway

A research team led by Associate Professor Wang Yaqiong of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGPAS), with domestic and international colleagues, has for the first time documented two marine ostracod species in Pleistocene lacustrine deposits of the Qaidam Basin. The fossils were identified as Bicornucythere bisanensis s.l.

BioSentinel CubeSat probes deep-space radiation with yeast; mission continues after three years — Nasa.gov

BioSentinel CubeSat probes deep-space radiation with yeast; mission continues after three years

NASA’s BioSentinel mission uses a small CubeSat laboratory to study how deep-space radiation affects living cells. Built and led by NASA Ames, the six-unit, cereal box-sized spacecraft carries yeast samples and a miniature biotechnology lab called the BioSensor to measure radiation effects beyond Earth’s magnetic shield. BioSentinel launched

JPL Tests Drones in Death Valley to Improve Mars Autonomy — Nasa.gov

JPL Tests Drones in Death Valley to Improve Mars Autonomy

Engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory took three research drones to Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert this year to develop and test navigation software meant for Mars. The work, called Extended Robust Aerial Autonomy, is one of 25 projects funded this year by NASA’s Mars

NASA selects Katalyst to raise Swift observatory’s orbit and extend mission life — Nasa.gov

NASA selects Katalyst to raise Swift observatory’s orbit and extend mission life

NASA has awarded Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, a contract to rendezvous with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and raise it to a higher altitude using a robotic servicing spacecraft, extending the mission’s science lifetime. Swift, launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy phenomena, has

NASA Extends Astrobee Program Through Unfunded Partnership with Arkisys — Nasa.gov

NASA Extends Astrobee Program Through Unfunded Partnership with Arkisys

Editor’s note: This article was updated on Sept. 30, 2025, to correct that the signed contract is an unfunded Space Act Agreement. NASA is continuing the Astrobee mission through a collaboration with Arkisys, Inc., of Los Alamitos, California. Arkisys was awarded an unfunded Space Act Agreement to sustain and

Reanalysis of Cassini Data Indicates Titan Likely Has Slushy Interior, Not a Global Ocean — Nasa.gov

Reanalysis of Cassini Data Indicates Titan Likely Has Slushy Interior, Not a Global Ocean

A reanalysis of radio tracking data from NASA’s Cassini mission suggests Saturn’s moon Titan may not host a single global ocean beneath its surface but instead has a layered interior of ice, slush and small pockets of warm water near its rocky core. The new study, led by

Gaia and ground telescopes fix mass and distance of a rogue planet — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Gaia and ground telescopes fix mass and distance of a rogue planet

A team of astronomers has, for the first time, measured both the mass and distance of a free-floating “rogue” planet using microlensing data from ground-based observatories and the space telescope Gaia. The object, catalogued as KMT-2024-BLG-0792 and OGLE-2024-BLG-0516 by separate teams, produced a microlensing event in which the gravity of

Met Office: 2025 was the UK’s hottest and sunniest year on record — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Met Office: 2025 was the UK’s hottest and sunniest year on record

The UK experienced its hottest and sunniest year on record in 2025, the Met Office confirmed, calling the result a "clear demonstration" of the impacts of climate change. The United Kingdom's mean temperature for 2025 was 10.09C, beating the previous record of 10.03C set

Noodlefish and icefish lost red blood cell function by different evolutionary routes — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Noodlefish and icefish lost red blood cell function by different evolutionary routes

Researchers report that warm-water Asian noodlefish, like Antarctic icefish, lack hemoglobin and red blood cells, but arrived at that condition by different evolutionary paths. H. William Detrich, professor emeritus at Northeastern University, collaborated with Chinese scientists on a Current Biology paper examining the two groups' genomes and blood chemistry.

Weather and moonlight shape when mountain warblers join the dawn chorus — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Weather and moonlight shape when mountain warblers join the dawn chorus

Soundscape ecologists working in South Africa's Golden Gate Highlands National Park have found that temperature, humidity, wind, rain and moonlight all influence when three species of mountain wetland warblers begin their dawn singing. The team, led in part by Mosikidi Toka, used automated audio recorders to track dawn

Crowded electrons force excitons to break up and travel faster — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Crowded electrons force excitons to break up and travel faster

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute found that excitons—electron–hole pairs usually thought to remain tightly bound—can suddenly break up and move much faster when a material is flooded with electrons. In carefully stacked two-layer materials with a grid of preferred sites, the team controlled electron density with

Ancient genomes reveal 2,500-year history of human herpesvirus integration

Ancient genomes reveal 2,500-year history of human herpesvirus integration

Researchers have reconstructed ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from human remains more than two millennia old, providing direct genomic evidence that these viruses have been evolving with humans since at least the Iron Age. The international study, led by the University of Vienna and the

EPFL team makes thermal paper coatings from wood that show far lower hormone activity than BPA — Scx2.b-cdn.net

EPFL team makes thermal paper coatings from wood that show far lower hormone activity than BPA

Scientists at EPFL report thermal‑paper coatings made from lignin and a sugar‑derived sensitizer that meet key performance requirements while showing much lower hormone‑like activity than common bisphenol developers. The researchers, in the groups of Jeremy Luterbacher and Harm‑Anton Klok, published the work in Science Advances. They

Dosage-sensitive genes indicate no separate whole-genome duplication at origin of flowering plants — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Dosage-sensitive genes indicate no separate whole-genome duplication at origin of flowering plants

Flowering plants (angiosperms) are the most diverse seed plants, and whole-genome duplications (WGDs) have long been proposed as key drivers of their origin and evolution. Detecting ancient WGDs is difficult because subsequent gene loss, chromosomal rearrangements and substitution saturation can obscure genomic signals. Earlier work proposed two early WGDs: ζ

NASA to End Earth Observer Newsletter in 2025 as Long‑running EOS Missions Near Retirement

NASA to End Earth Observer Newsletter in 2025 as Long‑running EOS Missions Near Retirement

NASA’s long‑running newsletter, The Earth Observer, which has chronicled the agency’s Earth Observing System (EOS) for nearly 37 years, will publish its final online content at the close of 2025. The newsletter evolved alongside EOS, documenting instrument development, mission planning, data systems and scientific results from satellites,

Chandra Image Reveals Two Colliding Clusters Nicknamed the 'Champagne Cluster' — Nasa.gov

Chandra Image Reveals Two Colliding Clusters Nicknamed the 'Champagne Cluster'

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes captured a composite image of a galaxy cluster discovered on Dec. 31, 2020, nicknamed the "Champagne Cluster" (officially RM J130558.9+263048.4). The image, combining Chandra X-ray data (shown in purple) with optical data from the Legacy Surveys, shows

JSC Microbiology Lab Monitors Microbial Risks to Crew and Spacecraft — Nasa.gov

JSC Microbiology Lab Monitors Microbial Risks to Crew and Spacecraft

Spaceflight creates health risks from interactions among microorganisms, crew, and the spacecraft environment, and NASA's JSC Microbiology team works to manage those risks and benefits. The laboratory addresses infectious disease, allergens, environmental and food contamination, and shifts in microbial ecology aboard spacecraft through operational monitoring and investigative research.

Seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus shows anatomical evidence of bipedal walking — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus shows anatomical evidence of bipedal walking

A new analysis of Sahelanthropus tchadensis fossils provides strong evidence the species could walk on two legs. Researchers identified a feature on the thigh bone found only in bipedal hominins and confirmed other traits linked to upright walking. The team used 3D geometric morphometrics and a multi-fold trait comparison with

Hubble Captures Gas Plume Stripped from Spiral Galaxy in Virgo Cluster — Nasa.gov

Hubble Captures Gas Plume Stripped from Spiral Galaxy in Virgo Cluster

A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4388, located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, and a resident of the Virgo galaxy cluster. Seen nearly edge-on from Earth, the galaxy reveals a previously unseen plume of gas streaming from its nucleus and billowing

Milky Way bulge cluster NGC 6569 is actively shedding stars, study finds — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Milky Way bulge cluster NGC 6569 is actively shedding stars, study finds

A team using the Anglo-Australian Telescope has found spectroscopic evidence that the globular cluster NGC 6569 in the Milky Way bulge is losing stars through tidal stripping. NGC 6569 lies about 35,500 light years from Earth, has a mass near 230,000 solar masses, a metallicity of roughly −0.

Curiosity Rover Creates Two‑Time‑of‑Day Postcard From Mars — Nasa.gov

Curiosity Rover Creates Two‑Time‑of‑Day Postcard From Mars

NASA's Curiosity team produced a Mars "postcard" by commanding the rover to take panoramic images at two different times on Nov. 18, 2025, spanning Sols 4,722 and 4,723 of the mission. The panoramas were captured at 4:15 p.m. on Sol 4,722

Hubble Reveals Gas Plume Escaping Spiral Galaxy NGC 4388 — Nasa.gov

Hubble Reveals Gas Plume Escaping Spiral Galaxy NGC 4388

A new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4388 from nearly edge-on, revealing a plume of gas streaming from its nucleus. NGC 4388 lies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster, which contains