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 […]
Como parte de una breve retrospectiva sobre la gran influencia que tuvo el Dr. Paul Spudis en el campo de la geología planetaria, consideramos que sería apropiado repasar algunos de […]
Un fuego devastador ardió en el Museo Nacional de Brasil el 2 de septiembre. Muchos, si no la mayoría, de los 20 millones de artefactos en la colección del museo […]
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 […]
La cuenca Aitken en el polo sur (SPA por sus siglas en inglés) de la cara oscura de la Luna es la estructura de impacto más grande conocida en la […]
Lanzado en 2003, el Mars Exploration Rover llamado Opportunity ha estado explorando la superficie del planeta rojo durante casi 15 años. Este es un logro notable, dado que Opportunity tenía […]
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 […]