NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) is NASA's annual omnibus solicitation providing competitive funding for space and Earth science research across dozens of program elements. Open to U.S. universities, nonprofits, and commercial researchers, ROSES awards typically start at ,000 and vary widely depending on the program element.

With rolling deadlines throughout the year and a March 2026 cycle, ROSES supports investigations in heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics, Earth science, and biological and physical sciences. Researchers can apply to multiple focused program elements within a single solicitation, making ROSES one of the most comprehensive federal funding opportunities for NASA-aligned science.

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nasa. gov/NNH25ZDA008J . Originally, the final SMEX to have been released in April 2025.

However, the Astrophysics Division is taking additional time to refine its approach to the SMEX call to more effectively and efficiently provide meaningful proposal opportunities for the astrophysics community. The next opportunity to propose for an Astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) mission is expected to be no earlier than April 2026. Inquiries should be addressed via email to Doris Daou, APD SMEX Program Scientist at Doris.

Daou@nasa. gov and E. Lucien Cox APD SMEX Program Executive at Elbert.

l. Cox@nasa. gov .

Responses may be given by email or posted in the Questions and Answers (Q&A) section on the SMEX Program Acquisition website at https://explorers. larc. nasa.

gov/APSMEX25/SMEX/ Release of Announcements for Partnership Proposals and an RFIs for Earth Science NASA has issued the following AFPPs and RFI: Announcement for Partnership Proposals (AFPP): Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) https://go. nasa. gov/afppcygnss Announcement for Partnership Proposals (AFPP): Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) https://go.

nasa. gov/afppoco2 Request For Information (RFI): Terra, Aqua, and Aura (TAA) Missions https://go. nasa.

gov/rfitaam Technical questions may be directed to Beth Weinstein, Deputy Associate Director for Flight via hq-esdpartnerships@mail. nasa. gov New Frontiers 5 AO Update NASA received comments on the draft New Frontiers 5 Announcement of Opportunity in 2023.

The current estimated release of final AO is no earlier than 2026. Comments provided in response to that draft will feed into development of the AO targeted for release no earlier than 2026. To assist proposers, NASA plans to share the major policies for the next AO approximately 18 months before the targeted release of the AO.

Further information will be posted when it is available on the New Frontiers Program Acquisition Website hosted by the Science Office for Mission Assessments (SOMA) at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) at https://newfrontiers. larc. nasa.

gov/NF5/ New Landsat Next Assessment Team NASA is establishing a Mission Alternatives Assessment Team to assess options to restructure the Landsat Next mission to provide continuity of the Landsat imagery at a lower cost. In May, the agency’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request stated that NASA will develop a revised plan for the Landsat Next mission.

On May 28, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate commissioned an independent Landsat Mission Alternatives Assessment Team with the express intention of determining options in keeping with the administration’s priorities. The team will evaluate alternative mission architectures to support a more affordable approach while maintaining continuity of the current Landsat program performance.

The team kicked off in June and will deliver findings to the Science Mission Directorate and the U.S. Geological Survey following completion of the 16-week assessment. Information on Future Portal for Archiving NASA-funded Accepted Manuscripts The NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program is developing an external submission portal for NASA-funded investigators to submit Accepted Manuscripts and other STI products.

The portal is expected to be available later this summer. The external portal will be used in place of the National Institutes of Health Manuscripts System (NIHMS), for grant and cooperative agreement recipients. The external portal will provide a more direct and streamlined Accepted Manuscript submission process for recipients.

The STI Program will send communications prior to the start date with instructions and reminders. As part of this transition, an information page about the new portal is available on the STI Program website which will be updated throughout the process: https://sti. nasa.

gov/new-external-submission-portal/ . The STI Program invites comments and questions about this new external manuscript submission portal via the Research Access Help Desk at https://sti. nasa.

gov/sti-contact-form/? RequestType=ResearchAccess . Dual-Anonymous Peer Review In our "ROSES" research solicitation we have expanded the use of dual-anonymous peer review in which, not only are proposers not told the identity their reviewers, the reviewers are not told the identity of the proposers (until after they have evaluated the scientific merit of all of the anonymized proposals).

To learn more about dual-anonymous peer review see https://science. nasa. gov/researchers/dual-anonymous-peer-review .

In our "ROSES" research solicitation we have expanded the number of programs with no fixed due date. To these no due date programs (including seven in planetary science), proposals may be submitted at any time without any preliminary statement such as a Notice of Intent or Step-1 proposal. For more information see https://science.

nasa. gov/researchers/NoDD . Need Advice about ROSES and proposal writing?

On the library and useful links page we have resources that may be useful to those who are new to proposing to ROSES: Links to YouTube versions of presentations given at Goddard in February 2022 at https://youtu. be/62QqJ2Nnlzc and older by Max Bernstein (NASA HQ) and Christina Richey (JPL) about proposal writing.

Both the video of Dr. Richey (thanks to the SETI Institute) and the video of Max Bernstein (thanks to NASA Ames Research Center). Other information that maybe useful to early career/ potential new PIs may be found at https://science. nasa.

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