[NASA]. Dragonfly will explore sites of interest around Titan’s equatorial regions and collect samples of surface material for analysis inside DraMS, the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer.
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Posted inSPACELINE Current Awareness List
NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,215 4 September 2026 (Space Life Science Research Results)
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Posted inTitan
Dragonfly Gets Wired Up While Titan Landing Area Is Named
[NASA]. Peeking into the clean room at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, it might be one of the first things you notice about NASA’s Dragonfly: […]
Posted inArctic / Antarctic / Alpine
Icy Ocean Planet Research: NASA ROSES-25 Amendment 71: New Opportunity A.16 Cryosphere
[NASA]. A.16 Cryosphere solicits high-impact efforts focused on sea ice, ice sheets, and glaciers. The expectation is that proposed investigations will use the wealth of data from NASA satellites and […]
LIFE NASA RCN Seminar Series: Cobamide biosynthesis in the last universal common ancestor?
Time: September 15th, 8 AM PDT/11 AM EDT JOIN THE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM Val Karavaeva is a PhD student at the Genome Evolution and Ecology Group (GEEG) at the University […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes
Roman Space Telescope Leaves Earth
[NASA]. Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. […]
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NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,214 28 August 2026 (Space Life Science Research Results)
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Posted inPlanetary Protection & Biosafety
NASA Establishes Mars Forward Operational Risk and Contamination Evaluation (M-FORCE) Tiger Team to Shape Mars Planetary Protection Protocols
[NASA OSMA]. NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA), in partnership with the Science Mission Directorate (SMD), is seeking applicants for a newly established external Tiger Team named Mars Forward […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology
Opportunity to Contribute to NASA DARES Community White Paper on Phototrophic Biosignatures
[Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments RCN] Opportunity to contribute to the “White Paper on Phototrophic Biosignatures: Research Priorities for the Search for Life on Other Worlds“, developed as community […]
Posted inMissions & Hardware
NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) Cooperative Agreement Notice (NNH26ZDA016C) Final Text And Due Dates
[NASA] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate (HSMD) have released the final text of the fifth Solar System Exploration Research […]