Voyager Map Details Neptune’s Strange Moon Triton
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. Like an old film, Voyager’s historic footage of Triton […]
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. Like an old film, Voyager’s historic footage of Triton […]
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with […]
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has chosen five candidate landing sites on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for its Philae lander. Philae’s descent to the comet’s nucleus, scheduled for this November, will […]
The Board of the 2014 Paolo Farinella Prize, composed by B. Bottke, F. Mignard, A. Rossi, D.J. Scheeres and G.B. Valsecchi, has unanimously awarded Prof. David Vokrouhlicky (Charles University, Prague, […]
Mr. Donald A. Beattie passed away in Florida this weekend. He was 85 years old. Born October 30 1929 on Staten Island New York, Mr. Beattie was a retired US Navy carrier […]
The LPI-JSC Center for Lunar Science and Exploration (CLSE) is looking for volunteers to advise a team of high school students participating in our 2014-2015 Exploration of the Moon and […]
Student travel grants are available for the Workshop on Volatiles in the Martian Interior to be held Nov 3-5, 2014, in Houston, TX. An application must be submitted by August […]
The European Space Agency awards several postdoctoral fellowships each year. The aim of these fellowships is to provide young scientists, holding a PhD or the equivalent degree, with the means of performing […]
The Planetary Data System (PDS) announces the second release of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Shallow Radar (SHARAD) radargram data processed by the U.S. members of the SHARAD team. This release […]
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Diviner science team at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar position utilizing Diviner data to address topics in one of the following areas […]
There will be opportunities for potential Ph.D. candidates seeking training, education, and research in Planetary Geology at the International Research School of Planetary Sciences (IRSPS, http://www.irsps.unich.it/) in the Ph.D. course of “Earth Systems […]
(NASA-GSFC/CRESST/University of Maryland) Applications are now being accepted for a Postdoctoral Research Associate, funded through the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) and the Center for Research and Exploration in Space […]
The goals of the in the Dawn at Ceres Guest Investigator Program are to: a) enhance the scientific return from the Dawn mission by broadening participation in the mission and […]
Abstract Deadline — Thursday, August 21, 2014, 5:00 p.m. U.S. Central Daylight Time (GMT -5) MEETING LOCATION AND DATE The workshop on Modern Analytical Methods Applied to Earth and Planetary Sciences will be held November […]
Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group— Abstracts Deadline Extended Monday, August 18, 2014! The abstract deadline has been extended to: Monday, August 18, 2014 5:00 PM CDT (GMT -5) The second […]
Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter’s moon Io within a two-week period in August of last year. This led astronomers to speculate that such “outbursts,” which can send material […]
NASA’s most advanced roving laboratory on Mars celebrates its second anniversary since landing inside the Red Planet’s Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT). During its […]
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted the timing of its orbit around Mars as a defensive precaution for a comet’s close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19, 2014. The […]
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will execute the largest planned maneuver of the spacecraft’s remaining mission on Saturday, Aug. 9. The maneuver will target Cassini toward an Aug. 21 encounter with Saturn’s […]
After a decade-long journey chasing its target, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta, carrying three NASA instruments, became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet. The last of a series […]