Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) Hayabusa2 spacecraft released the twin MINERVA-II1 landers above the surface of asteroid Ryugu on September 20. The rovers will “hop” around Ryugu’s surface collecting images and […]
In a study published earlier this year in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, researchers modeled the effect of magmatism in the lunar crust on surface magnetic fields to […]
The 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference will be held March 18–22, 2019 at the Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in The Woodlands, Texas. The deadline to submit indication of […]
NASA is looking for a partner to inspire future engineers and scientists by sponsoring a contest to name the next rover to venture to the Red Planet. The contest will allow U.S. […]
February 7-8, 2019, Arizona State University SkySong Innovation Center, Scottsdale, Arizona Women in Space 2019 is an expansion of the Women in Planetary Science 2018 conference held in Toronto. This […]
Funding Opportunity Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) NNH18ZDA018C Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and Human Exploration and Operations […]
The Lunar and Planetary Institute is pleased to announce that Planetary News is now available in Spanish. The LPI will expand its reach and offer translated versions of our weekly science […]
Postdoc Ad-2018.09.14 The Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University is seeking Postdoctoral Research Associate(s) with a background in planetary geophysics, data analyses, or applied math. Possible […]
After a nearly two-year space chase, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe finally had its asteroid target, Bennu, in sight on August 17, 2018. On September 11, 2018, the probe started its first […]
The Mars Research Assistant will work in the Planetary Science research group led by Edwin Kite in the University of Chicago’s Department of Geophysical Sciences. The central objective of the […]
The dates for the Pluto System After New Horizons (PSANH), an international science conference on the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt, have shifted by two days to July 14–18, […]
The Department of the Geophysical Sciences at The University of Chicago invites applications for the T.C. Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellowship. We seek outstanding scientists who lead creative investigations into the nature […]
The European SSHADE database infrastructure on spectroscopy of solids (www.sshade.eu) already offers online over 1500 spectroscopic data on various types of solids. They are provided by a consortium of 21 […]
A devastating fire blazed through the National Museum of Brazil on September 2. Many, if not most, of the 20 million artifacts in the museum’s collections have been destroyed. One […]
As part of a short retrospective on the large influence that Dr. Paul Spudis had on the field of planetary geology, we felt that a look back at some of his […]
To celebrate the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s (LPI’s) 50th anniversary, we asked staff to share their LPI experiences and thoughts on the last 50 years of planetary science. Watch this video […]
The Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) at the University of Hawai’i (UH) seeks to hire two tenure-track faculty members (one appointment will be made at the assistant level, […]
Members of the Mars community, I cordially invite you to participate in the third 2018 virtual meeting (VM3) of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), scheduled on Thursday, September […]
The farside South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is the largest known impact structure on the Moon and is a hot spot for scientific and space exploration. In 2018, the Chinese Chang’e-4 […]
Launched back in 2003, the Mars Exploration Rover named Opportunity has been exploring the surface of the Red Planet for almost 15 years. This is a remarkable achievement, given that […]