Astronauts Enjoy the First Crop of Space-Grown Peppers
On October 29, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) harvested the first chile peppers grown in space and enjoyed a little extra spice with their dinner. The chile peppers […]
On October 29, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) harvested the first chile peppers grown in space and enjoyed a little extra spice with their dinner. The chile peppers […]
The Moon has deep polar craters with permanently dark floors shielded from direct sunlight. These craters can be cold enough to maintain water ice, as demonstrated by NASA’s Lunar CRater […]
The Mercury Exploration Assessment Group (MExAG) is circulating Issue 5 of “The Mercury Newsletter.” The quarterly community newsletter can be accessed online at https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mexag/newsletter/. In this newsletter, we share Mercury science and exploration news, highlight recent […]
NASA’s Kepler mission and other efforts have shown that planets are ubiquitous in our galaxy. However, finding planets outside the Milky Way is a different challenge. Because the light from […]
Dear small body early-career researchers, The deadline for the early-career (<5 years since PhD) 15-minute invited talks at the Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) meeting (January 24–25) has been extended […]
The surface of Venus is inhospitable to life as we know it, but the planet’s thick clouds have been hypothesized to be a potentially habitable environment for Earth-like lifeforms. While […]
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to lead a series of low-pressure wind tunnel experiments to understand the formation of eolian ripples under a range of atmospheric pressures. This work […]
The UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences is happy to announce the initiation of a new graduate degree program in planetary science to add to its three existing […]
The Macau University of Science and Technology (Macau, China) invites applications for postdoctoral researchers to work in the field of solar system small bodies, interstellar comets, or early evolution of […]
The Mercury Exploration Assessment Group (MExAG) is seeking applications for an open position on the Steering Committee with a nominal term of three years. MExAG is a community-based, interdisciplinary body […]
Oxygen is a requirement for most life on Earth, leading scientists to consider the presence of atmospheric oxygen as a potential biosignature on other planetary bodies in our solar system, […]
The New Horizons flyby of Pluto in 2015 captured many stunning images of the sunlit side of the dwarf planet. However, much of Pluto, including the south pole, remained in […]
Chondrules are droplets of rapidly crystallized melts that formed in the protoplanetary disk within the first four million years of solar system history and are commonly found in primitive meteorites. […]
Applications are now being accepted for a research scientist to lead the Swift Guest Investigator (GI) program for the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory project Center for Research and Exploration in […]
Applications are now being accepted for a scientist to work in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Guest Investigator (GI) Program Office, resident within the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory […]
As a part of their collaboration on the International Mars Ice Mapper (I-MIM) mission concept, American, Canadian, Italian, and Japanese space agencies (NASA, CSA, ASI, and JAXA, respectively) invited qualified […]
The Science Division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Europa Clipper Project, managed for NASA by JPL, seek a Deputy Project Scientist for the development, cruise operations, and […]
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, located in Edmonton, Canada, invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in the study of advanced curation methods for planetary materials […]
The Great Red Spot (GRS) is a persistent anticyclonic storm in the atmosphere of Jupiter. It is the largest atmospheric vortex in the solar system, spanning 16,000 kilometers longitudinally. While […]
On February 18, the Perseverance rover entered the martian atmosphere at 5.6 kilometers per second on its way to Jezero Crater. The rover slowed significantly using its entry, descent, and […]