Funding Opportunities and Announcements

Funding Opportunities

Our current omnibus research funding opportunity is Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) - 2025, which was released July 10, 2025. We anticipate that ROSES-26 will be released in July of 2026. Thus, ROSES-25 will stay open through August 2026. To see what is in ROSES-25 refer to Tables 2 and 3 of ROSES-25 at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table2 and https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table3, respectively. To review what's new in ROSES this year see https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs/#faq-1. To keep track of changes to ROSES-25 after release there are several options: 1) Bookmark the ROSES-25 Blog at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2025/ 2) Subscribe to the ROSES-2025 Due Date Calendars, and 3) Sign up for the SMD mailing lists by logging in at https://nspires.nasaprs.com/, choosing "Account Management" and "Email Subscriptions". Checking the box for General Subscription List under "5. Science Mission Directorate" will ensure that you get emails about "Amendments" to ROSES but while there please also subscribe to relevant division lists for clarifications, corrections and other announcements.

Future Solicitations

You may download the current planning list of SMD Solicitations (NRAs and AOs) as a PDF from the SOMA web page. We anticipate that ROSES-26 will be released in July 2026. To be informed when ROSES-25 is released, and later learn of any amendments to ROSES, please subscribe to the SMD mailing lists by logging in at https://nspires.nasaprs.com/, choosing "Account Management" and "Email Subscriptions" and checking the box for General Subscription List under "5. Science Mission Directorate". While there you may also subscribe to relevant division lists.

2026 Astrophysics Small Explorer Announcement of Opportunity Update

SMD’s Astrophysics Division’s (APD) Explorers Program continues to plan on releasing an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) entitled “2026 Astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX)” during the 2nd Quarter of CY 2026. The AO Cost Cap will be increased to $190M in FY 2026 dollars (FY26$) from $170M in FY 2025 dollars (FY25$) in the draft AO. 

Along with answers to questions previously submitted by the Community, a copy of the full community announcement update also has been posted at https://explorers.larc.nasa.gov/APSMEX26/SMEX/index.html

Questions and/or comments may be addressed to John Wisniewski, Astrophysics Small Explorers Program Lead Scientist at john.p.wisniewski@nasa.gov, and E. Lucien Cox, Astrophysics Small Explorers Program Executive, elbert.l.cox@nasa.gov.

Earth Venture Orbital Solicitation Advance Notice

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate intends to solicit the first in a series of innovative, Principal Investigator (PI)-led, cost-capped investigations for operations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The full announcement can be found at https://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVO-1

This Earth Venture Orbital (EVO) solicitation will focus on:

• Faster time-to-science
• Strategic use of commercial capabilities 
• Promoting partnerships

NASA encourages feedback in response to this Community Announcement. Questions or comments about this EVO-1 Community Announcement should be submitted by April 23, 2026. The received questions and answers will be posted on the EVO-1 Acquisition Homepage at https://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVO-1

For questions or comments, please contact:

• Michael Kaszyca, NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program Office Deputy Program Manager, michael.kaszyca@nasa.gov    
• Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, Program Scientist, nadya@nasa.gov  

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/

Community Announcements

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.

No Due Dates?

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.gov/researchers/new-pi-resources.