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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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–

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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

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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

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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.

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NASA, SpaceX target Jan. 14 undocking and Jan. 15 splashdown for Crew-11

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 5:05 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 14, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission from the International Space Station, with a targeted splashdown off the coast of California at 3:41 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 15. On Jan.

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NASA to livestream Crew-11 undocking and planned splashdown off California

NASA will livestream the undocking and splashdown of SpaceX Crew‑11 from the International Space Station, with undocking planned no earlier than 5:05 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 14, if weather permits. On Jan. 8 NASA announced it would bring the Crew‑11 members back to Earth earlier

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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches NASA’s Pandora small satellite

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite lifted off at 5:44 a.m. PST Sunday, Jan., according to NASA. A photo from early January 2026 shows teams preparing to encapsulate NASA’s Pandora small satellite, the NASA‑sponsored Star‑Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), and

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NASA and DOE sign MOU to develop lunar surface reactor by 2030

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced a renewed partnership and signed a memorandum of understanding to support research and development of a fission surface power system for use on the Moon and for future missions to Mars, including development of a lunar surface reactor by 2030 under

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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