Dear Lunar Community, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Planetary Science Division recently requested that the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG) form a Specific Action Team regarding Analog Objectives for Artemis (AOA-SAT). […]
A wide range of geologic features, from individual volcanoes to vast lava plains, provide evidence of Venus’ volcanic past. Moreover, circumstantial evidence, such as transient bright spots in thermal emission […]
On February 22, 2019, the Hayabusa2 mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) collected samples of rock and dust from the surface of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, but it has […]
The LPI-JSC Center for Lunar Science and Exploration is pleased to announce the 2022 edition of the Field Training and Research Program in the San Francisco Volcanic Field, near Flagstaff, […]
The InSight team is recruiting a fourth round of “InSightSeers.” This is a program intended to expose early-career scientists to the experience of working on an interplanetary mission team. They […]
On December 25, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) successfully launched into space and will travel to an orbit almost 1,000,000 miles away from Earth. On January 4, 2022, […]
Little is known about the diversity and complexity of organisms, or the habitats in which they existed, on the early Earth. Understanding the organisms that lived in the distant past […]
Mars Community, On behalf of R. Aileen Yingst (MEPAG Chair), Rich Zurek, Brandi Carrier, and Dave Beaty of the Mars Program Science Office, the January 2022 edition of the Mars […]
The Institut für Planetologie in the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Münster, Germany, invites applications for a tenured position as a W3 Professor in Experimental and Analytical Planetology. […]
Sand spikes, which are pin-shaped, carbonate-cemented sandstone bodies sometimes more than a foot long, were discovered at Mount Signal in southern California around a century ago. However, until recently, the […]
A polymorph of calcium silicate (CaSiO3) having the perovskite structure is expected to be stable at the pressures and temperatures of Earth’s transition zone and lower mantle (420–2700 kilometers deep) […]
The Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG) is a community-based, interdisciplinary group providing a forum for discussion and analysis of matters concerning the collection, curation, and analysis of extraterrestrial samples. ExMAG […]
One stated goal of the current generation of Mars rovers is to search for possible ancient biosignatures on Mars. However, the question of what a genuine biosignature would look like […]
Giant planets are defined by their massive size, thick gaseous atmospheres, and lack of solid planetary surfaces due to low amounts of solid rocky material. The current “core-formation” model for […]
Mars Community, On behalf of R. Aileen Yingst (MEPAG Chair), Rich Zurek, Brandi Carrier, and Dave Beaty of the Mars Program Science Office, the December 2021 edition of the Mars […]
NASA Ames Research Center is seeking a permanent supervisory Branch Chief in Planetary Studies Research. To learn more about the branch and the Space Science and Astrobiology Division visit our […]
Meeting Name: Mars Studies Program with University of Arizona 2022Meeting Type: Planetary ScienceStart Date: 06/06/2022End Date: 07/15/2022Location: Tucson, ArizonaWeb Address: https://www.marsu.space/mars-studies-program Description: The Mars Studies Program (MSP) is a six-week […]
Meeting Name: Two-week Mars Science and Engineering ProgramMeeting Type: Planetary ScienceStart Date: 01/17/2022End Date: 01/29/2022Location: Boston, MAWeb Address: https://www.marsu.space/mars-science-and-engineering-course Description: Mars Science and Engineering (MSE) is a two-week synchronous in-person […]
NASA’S Ames Research Center (ARC) is seeking a Senior Scientist for Astrobiology. If Earth is not alone as the one-and-only planet harboring life in the universe, NASA is on the […]
The LPI–JSC Center for Lunar Science and Exploration will be hosting two field geology training activities in 2022. The first will be a Field Training and Research Program in the San […]