Beresheet Spacecraft: A Failed Lander, but a Major Milestone
In case you missed it, SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander was lost on its journey down to the lunar surface on April 11. During descent, the main engine shut off less than […]
Curiosity Explores Potential Past Habitable Environment on Mars
The Curiosity rover just obtained the first sample of the geologic feature that motivated the mission in the first place — the clay-bearing unit on the slopes of Aeolis Mons […]
Rare and Small Planetary Body Observed to Orbit a White Dwarf
Have you ever wondered what could be the fate of our solar system? The majority of sun-like stars end their lives as white dwarfs, a stellar core remnant that is […]
Outer Planets Assessment Group April Agenda
The OPAG April 23-24, 2019 meeting agenda has been posted on the OPAG Website: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/upcoming/ Please note, Committee Members do not need to register, they have been registered by meeting conveners. […]
Private Mission Enters Lunar Orbit
Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft has entered lunar orbit – mazel tov! This makes Israel only the 6th nation to do so. The elliptical orbit, with a closest approach of 310 miles, […]
Rare Meteorite Fall in Turkey Linked to Impact Crater on Vesta
The Sariçiçek meteorite, that fell in Turkey on September 2, 2015, is a howardite – a fragment of the regolith (or soil) of the asteroid 4 Vesta (recently studied by […]
ESA’s Planetary Science Archive (PSA) Survey
Dear planetary data users, As part of an effort to improve the ESA’s Planetary Science Archive (PSA) tools and services to the scientific community, we are conducting a survey to […]
Postdoc Opportunity in Planetary Science at University of Central Florida
Applications are solicited for a highly motivated postdoctoral research fellow to join Dr. Kerri Donaldson Hanna in the Planetary Sciences Group in the Department of Physics at the University of […]
EPSC-DPS Session EXO10/TP11
Advances in Developing Quantitative and Realistic Models of Terrestrial Planet Formation and Their Chemical Compositions Abstracts are welcome to the EPSC-DPS 2019 session EXO10/TP11 on the formation of terrestrial planets […]
A Return to the Moon in the Next Five Years
The United States is accelerating its plans to explore the lunar surface, which is an endeavor that will likely draw on the talents of students and scientists in our planetary […]
Release of the NASA Discovery Program 2019 Announcement of Opportunity
Release of the NASA Discovery Program 2019 Announcement of Opportunity Solicitation Number: NNH19ZDA010O NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is releasing the 2019 Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Discovery Program mission […]
NASA’s Mars Helicopter Passes Key Milestone in Development
Ever wonder what it would be like to fly on another planet? NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have just completed a successful flight test of a […]
SBAG Early Career Opportunities
As a reminder, the next SBAG meeting will be June 24-25th in the greater Washington D.C. area. We have two opportunities at the upcoming SBAG meeting in June specifically aimed […]
OSIRIS-REx Data Shows that the Rubble-Pile Asteroid Bennu is Geomorphologically Diverse
Based on images and thermal data from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft, a new study shows that asteroid (101955) Bennu has extensive surficial diversity […]
DEADLINE APPROACHING: BARRINGER GRANT APPLICATIONS DUE APRIL 5
To all- A reminder: If you know of a student in the planetary science community interested in impact cratering, please point them to the following opportunity: Barringer Grant Applications for […]
2019 NASA Planetary Science Summer Seminar Applications Open
NASA is accepting applications – from science and engineering post-docs, recent PhDs, doctoral students, junior faculty, and engineering students within 6-9 months of completion of their master’s degree but not […]
James Webb Space Telescope Master Class Call for Applications Now Open
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will host approximately 25 participants for a 4.5-day, in-depth Master Class workshop in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 18-22, 2019. The Master Class will include topics related to James […]
Job Opportunity: Faculty Position in Analytical Planetary Sciences at the Open University, UK
We are now recruiting to a lectureship position with a research specialism in analytical planetary sciences in the School of Physical Sciences at the Open University. This Faculty position will provide […]
Job Opportunities: Three Postdoctoral Positions in Mars Science
The Department of Planetology and Habitability at the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) invites applications for three postdoctoral positions to support investigations on the nature of the early Mars environments. We […]
Special Issue of Life: Planetary Exploration of Habitable Environments
The journal Life (ISSN 2075-1729) is currently preparing a special issue entitled “Planetary Exploration of Habitable Environments.” Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch of the Technical University Berlin, Germany, and Dr. Alberto G. Fairén […]