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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

NASA delays ROSES‑25 D.5 Astrophysics Pioneers due dates — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA delays ROSES‑25 D.5 Astrophysics Pioneers due dates

NASA's ROSES‑25 Amendment 38 delays the due dates for the D.5 Astrophysics Pioneers solicitation and makes three small changes to Section 5.3 of the announcement. The D.5 Astrophysics Pioneers element solicits proposals for astrophysics space and sub‑orbital science investigations that are greater in

Heising-Simons launches Astronova postdoctoral fellowship for instrumentation — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Heising-Simons launches Astronova postdoctoral fellowship for instrumentation

On 14 January 2026 the Heising-Simons Foundation announced a new multi-year fellowship to support postdoctoral scientists developing instrumentation for astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, and planetary science. The Astronomical Innovation (Astronova) Fellowship will fund up to two scientists per year at select host institutions for four years, beginning in Fall 2026. Astronova

Webb observations suggest accretion, not outflows, dominate near Circinus black hole — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Webb observations suggest accretion, not outflows, dominate near Circinus black hole

A team led by Dr. Enrique Lopez‑Rodriguez of the University of South Carolina used NASA’s Webb telescope to image the region around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy, applying the Aperture‑Mask Interferometry technique to obtain high‑contrast, high‑resolution views of outflow

Seminar reviews XRISM measurements of hot gas motions in galaxy clusters — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Seminar reviews XRISM measurements of hot gas motions in galaxy clusters

The DGCE SIG will hold a virtual seminar on 22 January 2026 at 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT featuring Irina Zhuravleva of the University of Chicago on mapping hot gas kinematics in galaxy clusters with XRISM. The talk focuses on the XRISM observatory (JAXA/NASA), launched in September 2023,

NASA invites researchers to join foundation-model AI work for Moon and Mars — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA invites researchers to join foundation-model AI work for Moon and Mars

NASA’s ROSES-2025 Amendment 37 introduces a new program element, C.12 Foundational Artificial Intelligence for the Moon and Mars (FAIMM), to enable individual researchers to participate as members of teams designing science and exploration applications for large, general artificial intelligence models known as Foundation Models for the Moon and

XRISM measurements of intracluster gas kinematics to be reviewed Jan 22 — Assets.science.nasa.gov

XRISM measurements of intracluster gas kinematics to be reviewed Jan 22

Irina Zhuravleva of the University of Chicago will present a Diffuse Gas in Cosmic Ecosystems Science Interest Group seminar on January 22, 2026, titled "Mapping Hot Gas Kinematics in Galaxy Clusters with XRISM: What Have We Learned So Far?" The talk is scheduled for 4:00 p.m.

NASA to begin live coverage of SpaceX Crew-11 undocking at 5 p.m. EST — Nasa.gov

NASA to begin live coverage of SpaceX Crew-11 undocking at 5 p.m. EST

NASA’s live undock coverage for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission will begin at 5 p.m. EST on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Viewers can learn more about the mission by following @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS

Crew-11 seals hatch as Dragon prepares to undock for California splashdown — Nasa.gov

Crew-11 seals hatch as Dragon prepares to undock for California splashdown

NASA’s live coverage of the SpaceX Crew-11 undocking is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime and the agency’s YouTube channel. At 3:29 p.m. EST, the crew closed the hatch between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and the return to

NASA to validate commercial satellite communications for science missions — Nasa.gov

NASA to validate commercial satellite communications for science missions

NASA plans to validate a variety of commercial communications services for science missions, ranging from near-instant delivery of high-rate science data over optical networks to support for launch operations and exchanges of telemetry, tracking and command information. For over forty years, spaceflight missions in low Earth orbit have relied on

NASA live coverage underway as Crew-11 prepares to close Dragon hatch — Images-assets.nasa.gov

NASA live coverage underway as Crew-11 prepares to close Dragon hatch

NASA’s live coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime and the agency’s YouTube channel for the return of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission as astronauts prepare to close the hatch between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station. NASA decided on Jan. 8 to return Crew-11 earlier

NASA delays Astrophysics Pioneers due dates in ROSES-2025 Amendment 38 — Assets.science.nasa.gov

NASA delays Astrophysics Pioneers due dates in ROSES-2025 Amendment 38

NASA has issued Amendment 38 to the Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2025 announcement, delaying due dates for the D.5 Astrophysics Pioneers solicitation. D.5 Astrophysics Pioneers solicits proposals for astrophysics space and sub-orbital science investigations that are greater in cost, scope, and capability than possible

NASA to bring four ISS crew home early in a "controlled medical evacuation" — Static01.nyt.com

NASA to bring four ISS crew home early in a "controlled medical evacuation"

NASA will bring four astronauts home from the International Space Station on Wednesday in what the agency called a "controlled medical evacuation" after a crew member developed an undisclosed medical issue. The group will return in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule about a month earlier than planned; NASA

Bad weather delays Thwaites Glacier camp; Araon crew works on nearby sea ice — Static01.nyt.com

Bad weather delays Thwaites Glacier camp; Araon crew works on nearby sea ice

Bad weather forced a postponement of attempts to set up camp on Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, forcing the icebreaker Araon to sail from a nose‑to‑nose position with the glacier to nearby Pine Island Glacier in the Amundsen Sea. Low clouds made it impossible to land helicopters and begin

High-quality woolly rhino genome recovered from tissue in ancient wolf pup’s stomach — Static01.nyt.com

High-quality woolly rhino genome recovered from tissue in ancient wolf pup’s stomach

Researchers produced a high-quality genome sequence of a woolly rhinoceros from a piece of partially digested hide recovered from the stomach of an ancient wolf pup preserved in northeast Siberian permafrost; both animals are some 14,400 years old, the team reported in Genome Biology and Evolution. The hide yielded

Toby Kiers awarded Tyler Prize for decades of mycorrhizal fungi research — Static01.nyt.com

Toby Kiers awarded Tyler Prize for decades of mycorrhizal fungi research

On Tuesday the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement was awarded to Toby Kiers, an evolutionary biologist at Vrije University Amsterdam who has spent the past three decades studying mycorrhizal fungi and the soil networks they form. Kiers, who last year also won a MacArthur fellowship and shared the Climate Breakthrough

Hubble images show protostars and jets carving cavities in Orion cloud — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble images show protostars and jets carving cavities in Orion cloud

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured three images of just-forming stars, or protostars, in the Orion Molecular Cloud complex, a region in the “sword” of the constellation Orion roughly 1,300 light‑years away. The images were taken as part of an effort to study the envelopes of gas

Arctic wildfires are becoming larger, hotter and more frequent, researchers say — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Arctic wildfires are becoming larger, hotter and more frequent, researchers say

NASA researchers report that the number of wildland fires in the Arctic is rising, and that these blazes are burning larger, hotter and longer than in previous decades, a trend detailed in a 2025 report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). The report ties the change to rapid

Satellite maps show rising wildfire activity across the far north — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Satellite maps show rising wildfire activity across the far north

Satellite-based maps from NASA show wildland fires in the far north have become more frequent and widespread, with the largest increases occurring in northern Eurasia. The maps use fire detections from the MODIS sensors on NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites and compare detections from 2002–2012 (yellow) with 2012–

Copernicus says 2025 was the third-hottest year on record — Api.time.com

Copernicus says 2025 was the third-hottest year on record

Copernicus, Europe’s climate change service, reported that 2025 was the third hottest year on record, Time said. The report noted that "The past 11 years have been the 11th warmest on record" and that 2024 currently remains the hottest year on record, the first to see average

NASA and SpaceX Crew-11 cleared to undock Wednesday for Dragon return — Images-assets.nasa.gov

NASA and SpaceX Crew-11 cleared to undock Wednesday for Dragon return

Mission managers have given the go for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 to undock Wednesday and return to Earth. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov will depart the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon, scheduled to undock from the Harmony

NASA Science publishes post titled Infrastructure — Images-assets.nasa.gov

NASA Science publishes post titled Infrastructure

NASA Science has published a post titled "Infrastructure." The only information provided with the post is that it appeared first on NASA Science. No further details about the content of the post are included in the source material, and additional information is not available from the provided excerpt.