ROSES 2025: Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science

NOTICE: Amended: December 12, 2025. Section I(e) on High-End Computing Resources was updated, a warning about "portfolio" PDFs was added to Section IV(b)ii, and a statement about public disclosure of proposal information was added to the end of Section V(e).

NOTICE: November 13, 2025. During the lapse in funding, several ROSES-25 due dates were changed to "TBD" in Tables 2 and 3 of ROSES-25 . Now that we are back at work, we will be resetting the due dates over the coming days. Please be patient. When a due date is reset, it will be announced via Amendment to ROSES with a notice sent to the SMD NSPIRES mailing list and a post to the ROSES-25 Blog at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2025/

NOTICE: October 1, 2025. There has been a lapse in funding. As long as the lapse in funding continues, civil servant points of contact for NASA programs will be unable to respond. NSPIRES help at (202) 479-9376 and nspires-help@nasaprs.com will still be active during this period. If the lapse in funding continues, future mandatory due dates (i.e., those other than optional NOIs) will be changed to "TBD" in Tables 2 and 3 of ROSES-25 a few business days before the next due date. When funding is reinstated, amendments will be issued setting new due dates. Proposers to programs that were set to TBD will be given back at least as many business days as the government was shut down.

NOTICE: Amended July 15, 2025. ROSES-25 Amendment 1 announces restrictions on funding of interagency awards from most proposal opportunities in ROSES-25: Appendix A (Earth Science) of ROSES-25 already had a prohibition on funding to government agencies other than NASA. Appendix C, (Planetary Science) has also adopted this prohibition. Appendix B (Heliophysics), Appendix D (Astrophysics), and F.3 The Exoplanet Research Program have not applied an outright prohibition, but require that any proposer planning on funding for or through government agencies other than NASA must seek approval from the point of contact for the program element to which they are planning to propose. D.1 The Astrophysics Research Program Overview notes that approvals for interagency awards for less than $100k per year are unlikely to be granted, regardless of whether the Federal Agency is the submitting institution or a Co-I institution. For more information, see the research program overviews (A.1 – D.1 & F.1) and Sections I(d)i and III(a) of the ROSES-25 Summary of Solicitation. New text is in bold and, where applicable, deleted text is struck through.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces that its annual NASA Research Announcement (NRA), Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) – 2025 (OMB Approval Number 2700-0092) was released on July 10, 2025. ROSES is an omnibus NRA, with many individual program elements, each with its own due dates and topics. All together these cover the wide range of basic and applied supporting research and technology supported by SMD. Awards will be made as grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts depending on the nature of the work proposed. However, most extramural research awards deriving from ROSES will be grants, and many program elements of ROSES specifically exclude contracts, because contracts would not be appropriate for the nature of the work solicited. Funded Co-Is at government labs will receive inter- or intra-agency transfers. The typical period of performance for an award is three years, but some programs may allow up to five years and others specify shorter periods. Organizations of every type, domestic and foreign, Government and private, for profit and not-for-profit, may submit proposals without restriction on teaming arrangements. However, it is NASA policy that all research at non-U.S. organizations will be conducted on the basis of no exchange of funds. This ROSES-2025 NRA will be available on its release or about July 10, 2025, at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025. Tables 2 and 3 of this NRA, which will be posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table2 and https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table3, respectively, provide proposal due dates and hypertext links to descriptions of the solicited program elements in the Appendices of this NRA. Since ROSES has traditionally received very few proposals via Grants.gov in the past, most program elements will be set up for application via Grants.gov only if requested at least 30 days in advance of the proposal due date.

 

To learn of additional new program elements or amendments to this NRA, proposers should subscribe to: (1) The SMD mailing lists (by logging in at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and checking the appropriate boxes under "Account Management" and "Email Subscriptions"), (2) The ROSES-2025 blog feed for amendments, clarifications, and corrections to at  https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2025/, and (3) The ROSES-2025 due date Google calendars (one for each science division). Instructions are at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/library-and-useful-links (link from the words due date calendar). Frequently asked questions about ROSES-2025 will be posted at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs/. Further information about specific program elements may be obtained, after the release of ROSES-2025, from the individual Program Officers listed in the Summary of Key Information at the end of each program element of ROSES-2025 and at: http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/program-officers-list/. General questions concerning ROSES-2025 may be directed to the office of the SMD Deputy Associate Administrator for Research at sara@nasa.gov.