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American Physical Society Joint March Meeting and April Meeting - Global Physics Summit 2026, Denver, Colorado,16-20 March 2026

Astrophysics Division Update and Astro 2030 Preparations. Speaker: Shawn Domagal‑Goldman (NASA APD Director)

The NASA Astrophysics Division Director, Shawn Domagal‑Goldman, will provide an update in a webinar on 10 March 2026, 12 noon-1p Eastern (9a-10a Pacific).

The Roman Space Telescope Science Operations Center (STScI) and Science Support Center (IPAC/Caltech) are hosting a series of webinars designed to help Roman users explore tools and resources available for planning Roman observations and analyzing data.

The Roman Space Telescope Cycle 1 Call for Proposals is now open. Proposals Due 17 March 2026.

The call for NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) semester 2026B observing proposals has been released. Proposal deadline is Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 5p Hawaii Standard Time.

Registration is now open for NASA’s Innovation for Astrophysics Missions Workshop! Applications due by 15 April 2026.

The Role of Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos in TDAMM

The Call for Proposals for NASA time at the W. M. Keck Observatory (WMKO) in observing semester 2026B (1 August 2026 to 31 January 2027) is now open. 

The Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee is a federal advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act at the recommendation of the Presidential Committee on the Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (COMRAA).

The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) 10-year strategic plan is being developed. The plan will cover an important period for observatories on Maunakea.

The 2026 membership call is open to scientists at any career stage, including students, post-doctoral researchers, faculty, research staff, retirees, and those in private enterprises involved in the NewAthena Study.

We are happy to announce that the registration portal for the 16th International LISA Symposium (21-26 June 2026 in College Park, Maryland) is now fully open! Thank you for your patience while that took longer than expected.

The ROSES-25 opportunity F.19 Collaborative Opportunities for Mentorship, Partnership and Academic Success in Science (COMPASS) funds collaborations between NASA Centers and academic institutions that will advance NASA’s scientific priorities and train the future STEM workforce.

The NASA Astrophysics Division Director, Shawn Domagal‑Goldman, will provide an update in a webinar on 10 March 2026, 12p-1p Eastern (9a-10a Pacific).

Community Meeting to Discuss a White Paper in Support of a CMB Space Probe

ROSES-25 Opportunity D.6 Astrophysics Research and Analysis Program (APRA) solicits basic research proposals for investigations that are relevant to NASA’s programs in astronomy and astrophysics and includes research over the entire range of photons, gravitational waves, and particle astrophysics. D.7…

Please save the date for the upcoming American Astronomical Society Summer Meeting (AAS 248), to be held 14-18 June 2026 in Pasadena, California at the Pasadena Convention Center.

Astronomers have bold goals for the coming decades: to search for life on Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars, understand how galaxies, stars, and planets came to be, and probe the fundamental physics of the Universe.  The landscape of space science…

This seminar will feature an update from the Habitable Worlds Observatory Community Science & Instrument Team (CSIT), presentations on technical capabilities, and time for groups to advertise their HWO-related work and find collaborators. If you would like an advertisement slot…

ROSES-25: Several Changes to F.10 PRISM. Proposal Deadline 20 February 2026.

NASA’s Fornax Initiative is now accepting beta users on our Science Console, a JupyterLab environment in the cloud for computing next to NASA astrophysics archival data.

The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) is planning to host additional datasets that will greatly enhance the scientific output of the Roman Space Telescope.