NASA has decided to extend the July 1, 2025, application cycle. The current application cycle will remain open and accept applications through November 1, 2025.
Application deadline is Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 6 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time
Please see the How to Apply page for application instructions and be sure to check out the Application Tips.
Ben Hord, Ph.D., a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, is working on a project that sounds like something out of science fiction: the Pandora SmallSat mission. Set to launch in fall 2025, Pandora will study at least 20 exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, and their stars to figure out what their atmospheres are made of.
Ali Hyder, Ph.D., was raised in a family of artists and is himself a musician, which seems a far cry from his research modeling the hydrodynamics of the surfaceless planet Jupiter but he believes art and science fuel each other. Science is also art because you have to be creative in a specific way, he says. Hyder takes a deep dive into why modeling Jupiter's hydrodynamics is important for better understanding Earth, as well as how he became interested in science.
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