The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

The Artemis 2 TLI burn is underway.

Artemis II: Houston has given Artemis II the "go" for TLI. The 5 minute 49 second TLI burn is set to begin at 7:49 pm EDT, in about 20 minutes. Watch on NASA's Youtube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...

“Humanity’s next great voyage begins” Four astronauts are on their way to the Moon and, if everything goes to plan, they will travel farther from Earth than any human has before go.nature.com/418rR6i

NASA reporting an issue with one of the batteries on the Artemis 2 launch abort system; temperature out of range.

ESA Seeks Commercial Provider to Transport Payload to the Moon 🧪

#NASA HQ is further adjusting its NASA Advisory Committee by removing some current of its members. This note from NASA Administrator is being sent out to some NAC members.

Well, that's not as fast as I was hoping to get to the Moon... Now maybe not until 2030? spacenews.com/ispace-redes...

The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies at ASU is hiring a Deputy Director/Research Professor! apply.interfolio.com/182090

I don't yet* know who has been selected, but the selection *rate* for the Artemis III Participating Scientist Program seems to have been 5.5%. *I expect NASA to publicize these selections imminently

Last year I posted about this freaking out. Breaking the previous record by more than a week and being a month earlier than average. Welp. Yesterday the ice broke on the Santa Cruz. 3 weeks earlier than the previous record, *which was set last year* It is still winter!

What happened to "America First"?

Yes please 🙏 🧪🛰️🪐 www.planetary.org/press-releas...

NASA Now Targeting April 1 for Artemis II’s Launch Around The Moon spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-no...

From NASA Are you a doctoral student, recent Ph.D., postdoc, or junior faculty who has a strong interest in science-driven robotic space exploration missions? The deadline to apply for NASA's Planetary Science Summer School is March 23. Details and eligibility: www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/internsh...

One was in the army and then involved in family businesses including a parking garage and the restaurant inside an amusement park. The other spent time in the navy before working at a Shell refinery.

Apply Now: 2025 NASA Planetary Science Summer School astrobiology.com/2025/01/appl... #NASA #Astrobiology #Astronomy #Geology #Education

Hanging out with some flight hardware.

Three years into my faculty job and I was just asked if I’m a student 👩‍🎓. I’m going to optimistic and assume they at least meant a grad student.

February 21, 1993, died on this day aged 105 years, Danish seismologist Inge Lehman. She discovered that the Earth has a inner core announcing it in 1936 with the shortest title for a paper ever: P' - after the seismic discontinuity between core and mantle shown by the P-waves

Artemis II WDR 2: SLS Core Stage has a bellyful of Liquid Hydrogen and Oxygen, with no issues reported so far! youtube.com/watch?v=pOAO...

From NASA Administrator Isaacman yesterday: "there are no missions that are being canceled or terminated. This was entirely an information gathering exercise that has been completely routine." He called the original report (in Politico Pro, not Gizmodo) "really incorrect".

The biggest planet in our solar system is a little bit smaller and a little bit flatter than we thought. A new study involving LPL Professor Emeritus William Hubbard updates our understanding of the shape of Jupiter. lpl.arizona.edu/news/2026/ju...

House committee advances NASA authorization bill The House Science Committee unanimously approved a NASA authorization bill Feb. 4 after adopting dozens of amendments.

Kudos to LPL's Head and Director, Dr. Mark Marley, for being awarded the 2026 Lecar Prize! science.arizona.edu/news/lunar-p...

For folks who are keep track I pinged nasa about FINESST today and still no update except the current roses text

I am sorry to share the news of the passing of LPL Professor Emeritus Uwe Fink. Uwe was a stalwart member of LPL, joining the lab back in 1967. He worked on many topics, especially spectroscopic studies of planets, satellites, nebulae, asteroids, and comets.

Applications are now open for the 2026 EarthScope Student Career Internship Program! This 11-week internship offers paid, real-world work experience for undergrads, grad students, and recent grads (within 1 year of graduating). Learn more about each position & apply ➡️ https://loom.ly/6rXaoKw

Congrats to the selected PRISM instruments! www.nasa.gov/news-release...

M 4.9 earthquake 19 km NNE of Indio, CA Did you feel it? Report it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Tonight's M4.9 north of Indio is the largest quake in SoCal since the M5.2 near Julian last April.

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant exoplanets and their host stars.

It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.

12 months after the 2024 election: National Science Foundation lost 29% of its staff. NOAA lost 20%. NASA lost 6%. Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

SpaceX has launched the Twilight mission at 5:44am PST (13:44 UTC) aboard Falcon 9 booster B1097-5 from SLC-4E at the Vandenberg SFB in California, sending the Pandora satellite and 39 other rideshares south toward a dawn/dusk sun-synchronous orbit. [Video Credit 🎥: SpaceX]

Deployment of Pandora

Finally, a long-overdue update on Artemis 2 preparations including a rollout date (no earlier than Jan. 17) and launch periods in February, March, and April. www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Good luck to LPL's Professor Daniel Apai and his team leading the Pandora mission! The mission launches this Sunday, January 11 at 6:19am Tucson time. Launch coverage details can be found at the link below. www.spacex.com/launches/twi...

House Passes Final FY2026 Funding Bill For NASA, Senate is Next spacepolicyonline.com/news/house-p...

The first full-fledged private space telescope could launch as early as 2029--here's a thoughtful look at what that might say about and mean for astronomical science: www.scientificamerican.com/article/schm... 🧪 🔭

House Approps has released a pkg of FY2026 approps bills including CJS (NASA & NOAA). appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Planetary friends: The LPSC 2026 abstract deadline is coming up this Tuesday. I will not attend because of LPI's shit anti-DEI policy, but I'm curious as to how many people *will* participate this year. If you have submitted an abstract and are willing to share its submission number, please DM me.

NASA finally has an administrator

The Senate is now voting to confirm the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be the next Administrator of #NASA

Hi friends, please help me spread the word on the open professor position in #planetaryScience we have in Bern 🔽

New paper out! Thanks to Laura for leading the efforts! 🔭🪐🧪 A Roadmap for the Exploration of Enceladus - Rodriguez - 2025 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

M 7.6 earthquake 73 km ENE of Misawa, Japan earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

NASA revealed they found some of the building blocks of life in a sample brought back from an asteroid (on a University of Arizona-led mission, by the way). It raises some big questions about whether there’s other life somewhere out there in the universe. According to my math, probably.