The Department of Physics (physics.cos.ucf.edu) at the University of Central Florida invites applications for up to two (2) tenure-track positions at the assistant professor level or higher beginning in August […]
The American Astronomical Society’s Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA) is pleased to announce that its annual meeting will take place at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, PA, from April […]
August 4-8, 2014 Madison, Wisconsin In support of the new “Arizona Style” book, “Saturn in the 21st Century”, this conference will be held August 4-7 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. […]
The Lunar and Planetary Institute is looking for Meeting Mentors for the 2014 YSS Undergraduate Research Conference at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC). We anticipate close to 40 […]
Dear Colleagues: You are invited to participate in the First Landing Site Workshop for the 2020 rover mission to Mars. The workshop will be held during the week of May […]
The first scheduled speaker, Lindley Johnson, is a victim of the winter storm hitting the US East Coast, so he will not be giving the first lecture tomorrow in the […]
*** FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT 5TH JOINT SRR/PTMSS MEETING *** The Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS) in collaboration with the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), will convene their […]
Dear colleagues, The first open ExoMars 2018 Landing Site Selection Workshop (LSS WS#1) will be held at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), close to Madrid, on 26–28 March 2014. […]
Dear Colleague, The Mars Exploration Program (MEP) would like to solicit your participation on a Mars 2020 Contamination Study Panel. Mars 2020 is a strategic mission sponsored by NASA’s Planetary […]
A brief introduction: In the past five years, the paradigm of lunar volatiles research has shifted from hypothesizing on the existence of volatiles on the Moon to classifying the abundance […]
The second LAD meeting devoted to the interplay between laboratory astrophysics and astronomy, planetary science and related sciences will be held jointly with the 224th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, June 1-5, […]
As part of the celebration of the beginning of the 30th year of the SETI Institute, a 2012 interview with the “father of SETI science,” astronomer Frank Drake was conducted by SETI Institute […]
Curious about how to improve the quality of the proposals you send to NASA? Ever wonder what the review panel is really looking for when it reviews that proposal? The Planetary Science […]
The U.S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, has up to three full-time permanent interdisciplinary (Geologist, Geophysicist, Physical Scientist, or Space Scientist) research positions now posted online. The soft-money positions are […]
The scope of this session includes two areas of research regarding “Dusty Plasmas in Space”: (1) the wide range of naturally occurring dusty plasmas in the Universe, such as those present in […]
COSPAR 2014 Moscow, August 2-10 Abstract submission date: Feb. 14 Full details and online abstract submission at: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/ Lunar science and exploration are having a renaissance with as many as ten […]
MESSENGER has now returned more than 200,000 images acquired from orbit about Mercury. The 1996 proposal for the mission promised a return of at least 1,000 images says Robert Gold, […]
NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE, observatory has been approved for a 28-day mission extension. The spacecraft is now expected to impact the lunar surface on or […]
The MAVEN spacecraft and all of its science instruments have completed their initial checkout, and all of them are working as expected. This means that MAVEN is on track to […]
Space rocks hitting Mars excavate fresh craters at a pace of more than 200 per year, but few new Mars scars pack as much visual punch as one seen in […]