The reception gallery at the USRA Houston building highlights recent work of Lunar and Planetary Institute scientists. Exhibits change quarterly. The current exhibit features the work of LPI staff scientist Dr. […]
Observational Astrophysics: From Proposals to Publication Stará Lesná, Slovak Republic, June 17-27, 2019 Deadline for applications, Sunday, March 31 Observational Astrophysics: From Proposals to Publication will take place June 17 – […]
VEXAG debuted a new listserve for the Venus community on January 10, 2019. The initial listserve distribution was gleaned from VEXAG meeting attendees and past presenters on Venus science at […]
To the Mars Community, On behalf of Jeff Johnson (MEPAG Chair), Dave Beaty, Rich Zurek, and Kelly Perry of the Mars Program Science Office, the January 2019 edition of the […]
To the Small Bodies community: We have decided to proceed with SBAG 20, the meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, January […]
The LPI invites inquisitive adults interested in current topics in space science and exploration to join us for the third presentation in the 2018-2019 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series, Surprises in the Saturn […]
Dear colleagues and attendees of the Cassini Science Symposium in Boulder, August 2018: Because of the government shutdown, the deadline for submissions to the special Icarus issue on Cassini Mission […]
To celebrate the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s (LPI’s) 50th anniversary, we asked staff what the LPI means to them and to share their thoughts on the last 50 years of […]
The VEXAG Venus Exploration Documents, which were last updated in 2014, are being revised in anticipation of the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey. Drafts of each our updated draft Venus […]
The Planetary Data System is pleased to announce the first PDS-wide announcement of any Dawn data. The Ceres regional Digital Terrain Map of the Occator region has been constructed from […]
The University of Arizona (UA) Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory (SO) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work with Dr. Ewan Douglas on space astrophysics instrumentation and […]
Dear Colleagues, We’d like to alert you to the fact that a new topical selection has been added to the drop-down menu for Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) abstracts: […]
To the Small Bodies community: Note the following report that came out on Thursday, December 20, 2018. Strategic Investments in Instrumentation and Facilities for Extraterrestrial Sample Curation and Analysis: The […]
The VEXAG Venus Exploration Documents, which were last updated in 2014, are being revised in anticipation of the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey. Drafts of each our updated draft Venus […]
Findings from the Fall 2018 Outer Planets Assessments Group (OPAG) meeting have been posted and can be found online here: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/archive/.
In case you missed the press conference at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting (Washington, DC) last week, the OSIRIS-REx team reported their initial scientific findings on arriving at the asteroid Bennu. […]
Registration for the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) and for conference exhibitors is now open. Bringing together international specialists in petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, geology, and astronomy to present the […]
The Lunar and Planetary Institute is pleased to announce the release of Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn, the latest volume in the prestigious Space Science Series, published by The University of […]
The next Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) meeting will be held on February 5-6, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. Details of the meeting will be posted as they […]
Exoclimes V will take place at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK on August 12-15, 2019. Exoclimes is the premier international meeting focused on exoplanet atmospheres, their modeling, and their […]