Research MCP Servers for Codex CLI

NASA GIBS MCP — the satellite-imagery layer catalogue behind Worldview.

NASA astronomy photo of the day + imagery. $0.01/query. Register in-session — free testnet funds.

NASA mission & space news: launches, science. $0.01/query. Register in-session — free testnet funds.

NCBI Datasets — the US National Library of Medicine's genome, gene and taxonomy reference service…

dbSNP refSNP records and HGVS/SPDI/rsID normalization for human genetic variants, from NCBI…

NCI Thesaurus concepts and the other cancer-research vocabularies served by NCI Enterprise…

NEISS — CPSC's national weighted consumer-product injury estimates.

Geopolitical grounding for AI agents: country risk, forecasts, chokepoints, sanctions. Free tier.

AI-engineering archive: search, what is new, forecasts, topic briefs, URL context; moderated inbox.

NewsOracle News and Trends Intelligence MCP

News momentum + what-changed outcome tools for agents. Signals + links, ~296 sources.

UK NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) open-data MCP.

NOAA CoastWatch — satellite and model ocean data via ERDDAP.

Search 340M+ academic papers — citation graphs, semantic similarity, and AI literature reviews.

US baby name popularity data from SSA records (1880-2025): search, trends, geography, culture.

NOIRLab Astro Data Lab — datalab.noirlab.edu.

Grounds LLMs in real Old Norse: lemmas, mediopassive paradigms, English→Old Norse lookup.

Nobel MCP — wraps the Nobel Prize API v2 (free, no auth)

Query and explore Nova Scotia open datasets via the Socrata SODA API.

Research companies with an AI advisor, run vendor comparisons, and generate ranked business ideas.

AI-powered biblical research tools — lexicons, morphology, manuscripts, and more.