Science reports that in late January 2026 a strong, moisture-laden storm dropped snow across nearly the entire state. A NASA Earth Observatory image acquired on February 2 with the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite shows a nearly continuous blanket of white stretching from mountain cities in the west to

A report from Science outlines a proposal by Laurent Pueyo of the Space Telescope Science Institute to work with the Roman Coronagraph Instrument project to maximize the Coronagraph Instrument technology demonstration return and transfer knowledge to the Habitable World Observatory (HWO). The proposal emphasizes that the Coronagraph Instrument is the

Science reports a proposal led by Tyler Robinson of the University of Arizona, PI, to support the Roman Coronagraph Instrument (RCI) aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as a technology demonstration for high-contrast imaging. The proposal calls for a novel grid of giant exoplanet atmospheric models, spectral simulations,

Science reports the Space Imaging and Optical System Laboratory (SIOSlab) at Cornell University has been supporting the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument since pre-Phase A and maintains two open-source, community resources: a one-to-one port of the internal JPL Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) as a module of the EXOSIMS

Science reports Jason Wang of Northwestern University proposes to join the Roman Coronagraph team to assist in target selection, data simulation and reduction, instrument performance characterization, and science demonstration by adapting current open-source tools. Wang, a lead developer of the pyKLIP and orbitize! packages, would add functionality so the tools

Science reports a virtual AGN SIG Vision Series seminar will be held on 17 February 2026 at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT, and the community is invited to join. The first Vision Series talk for the year will feature Dr. Santiago Garcia-Burillo (Observatorio Astronómico Nacional-OAN) presenting The

A report from Science says the Roman Coronagraph (RC) will advance understanding of how well the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) can study rocky planets, giant planets, and dusty debris, and should produce the first direct detection of a giant planet in reflected starlight while providing unprecedented views of the spatial

Nasa describes Dr. Erik Weiser as the acting deputy assistant administrator for NASA’s Office of Strategic Infrastructure (OSI). He supports the assistant administrator with operational management and oversight of the office to ensure NASA can meet mission requirements while maintaining affordability, efficiency, and sustainability. As part of the Mission

Science reports the Roman Coronagraph technology demonstrator is a pathfinder for a future coronagraph with full science capability, now embodied in the Habitable Worlds Observatory. This provides an extraordinary opportunity to learn lessons that will optimize HWO’s scientific goals, design, and operations. Before launch, the original Formulation Science Working

Nytimes reports that scientists have conducted the first study indicating that apes can play pretend, suggesting imagination is within apes’ cognitive potential and may be traceable to our common evolutionary ancestors. Researchers led by Christopher Krupenye and Amalia Bastos tested Kanzi, a male bonobo at the Ape Initiative, in three

A report from Science says the post Historic Technology Milestones appeared first on NASA Science. The post highlights Wide-field IR Detector Technology Reports. It also highlights WFIRST Coronagraph Technology Reports.

A report from Nasa says a new Hubble image, released on Jan. 30, 2026, is the sharpest taken of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. A lenticular, meaning “lens-shaped,” galaxy is a type whose classification sits between more familiar spiral galaxies

Nytimes reports that in late December researchers descending a remotely operated vehicle off Argentina encountered a jellyfish on screen at roughly 800 feet that proved to be a giant phantom jelly. The control room fell silent as the team documented the ethereal creature and its long arms, which made maneuvering

Nytimes reports that San Ramon, Calif., has been rattled by dozens of small earthquakes since late last year, with the most active day bringing a magnitude 4.2 that was felt as far away as San Francisco. Seismologists describe the sequence as an earthquake swarm that began on Nov. 9,

A report from Nasa says Johnson Space Center in Houston and the University of Texas System signed a collaborative Space Act Agreement on Jan. 9, 2026, to expand research and workforce development partnership opportunities across NASA centers and UT System facilities. The agreement builds upon decades of collaboration between NASA

A report from Science says Mars has emerged from its holiday behind the Sun, and teams on Earth have reconnected with Curiosity. The first planning day gave Curiosity a full weekend of activities and prepared the rover for its next drill. The team checked out a broken white rock in

A report from Science says NASA’s Fornax Initiative is now accepting beta users on the Fornax Science Console, a JupyterLab environment in the cloud for computing next to NASA astrophysics archival data. Cloud data housed in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), Infrared Science Archive (IRSA)

A report from Science says the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) plans to host additional datasets to enhance the scientific output of the Roman Space Telescope and is asking the astronomical community for suggestions via a public questionnaire. Any non-Roman datasets that are publicly available by September 2027 may

A report from Science says Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite, was a joint project of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama, which built the launch rocket; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which built the satellite; and the University of Iowa, where the science instruments

According to Science, the Science Mission Directorate Science Activation Program encourages all people to actively participate in science through activities and resources developed by a collaborative network of project teams drawing on NASA SMD assets. The Science Activation program element (F.6 SciAct) of ROSES-25 solicits a portfolio of projects

Biomedical research to promote astronaut health and Earth observations topped the science schedule aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. The Expedition 74 trio is also gearing up for the arrival of the SpaceX Crew-12 mission while continuing lab maintenance for the upkeep of the orbiting lab. A second day

This Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) solicitations page compiles opportunities to collaborate with NASA’s aeronautical innovators and contribute to research that enables new and improved air transportation systems. Most opportunities are announced through the Web-based NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES), and visitors are encouraged

Erin Edwards is deputy branch chief in the Crew Operations Office, where she and her team manage astronaut candidate training schedules, including field medical exercises, land survival, and underwater operations at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. She develops and tests new training programs and serves in the International Space Station

This page compiles calls for community input and participation related to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, including self‑nominations, white paper requests, survey definition efforts, and mission support opportunities. Entries listed include the Roman Science User Panel self‑nominations, Roman/WFI First Look Observations, the Roman Coronagraph Instrument call

The Galaxies Science Interest Group seminar on February 4, 2026 featured John Weaver presenting Monsters in the Dark: Searching Far and Wide for Ultra-Luminous Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn. Weaver discussed evidence that the first galaxies (z > 10) appear to have formed faster and more efficiently than standard models predict