5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (239+ words) nasawatch.com Keith’s note: Last year I was trying to retire. Circumstances at NASA changed that. I needed financial help to run a beefed-up NASAWatch to handle the traffic and y’all were very kind and funded it for a year…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (223+ words) NASA Watch NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) Update Keith’s note: The Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) has issued this update: “Dear Colleagues, The SBAG steering committee wishes to share a “save the date” for the next SBAG meeting. SBAG…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (54+ words) NASA Watch Beauty Encountered During Ice World Exploration NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber. One response to “Beauty Encountered During Ice World Exploration” Spectacular! These expeditions are so fascinating. Keep up the…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (239+ words) This is not a NASA website. You might learn something. It's YOUR space agency. Get involved. Take it back. Make it work - for you. Community Message From NASA Planetary Science Analysis/Assessment Group Chairs (AGs) Keith’s note: The following was…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (162+ words) NASA Watch Keith’s note: these are the current NASA Planetary Science Analysis Groups listed by NASA – just in case that page goes away (it happens a lot at NASA these days). Full page below In addition to the Planetary Advisory…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (245+ words) Keith’s note: on 16 January 2026 NASA Planetary Science Division Director Louise M. Prockter: distributed this letter “The Future of the Planetary Science Analysis and Assessment Groups (AGs)” — (Full Text below). With all these considerations, over the last year, we in PSD…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (149+ words) NASA Watch SPHEREx Gets Sylvia A. Earle Award For Exploration Excellence Keith’s note: The Explorers Club has issued its annual ECAD award. Among them is the enormously cool Sylvia A. Earle Award For Exploration Excellence which is going to the NASA…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (234+ words) NASA Watch Looking For Earth 2.0 Keith’s note: NASA issued a release today about Habitable Worlds Observatory tech development contracts. Once again, I am baffled why news involving the search for habitable worlds – a core astrobiology thing – doesn’t use the word…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (168+ words) NASA Watch Tricorder Tech For Everyone: NASA’s STELLA Open Science Instrument Keith’s note: NASA has just authored a paper on a new way for people with a wide variety of interests to use – and build – sensor technology that is a…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (356+ words) Keith’s note: this is an except from the GESTA IFPTE Local 29 blog Building Closure Updates 27 Dec 2025 – it is important to note that this library also includes the contents of the NASA HQ library which was closed and removed to make…...