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Program News and Announcements

16 May 2025

NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship — Application Deadline Deferred to 1 November 2025

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers US and international scientists the opportunity to advance their research while contributing to NASA’s scientific goals. The NPP supports fundamental science, explores the undiscovered, promotes intellectual growth, and encourages scientific connections.

Selected by a competitive peer-review process, NPP Fellows complete one- to three-year Fellowship appointments that advance NASA’s missions in Earth science, planetary science, heliophysics, astrophysics, biological and physical science, aeronautics and engineering, human exploration systems, space operations, space technology, and astrobiology. Search for NPP research opportunities here: NPP Research Opportunities.

Since our last PhysCOS-News mail, the NPP has deferred application deadlines. The next application deadline for the program is now 1 November 2025.

For further information and to apply, visit the main applicants web page. Please direct questions to npp@orau.org.

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