Research MCP Servers for Microsoft Copilot

NASA ADS — the Astrophysics Data System, api.adsabs.harvard.edu.

NASA data: near-Earth objects, space weather, and astronomy pictures

NASA FIRMS MCP — active-fire / thermal-anomaly detections from MODIS and VIIRS.

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)