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 […]
As policy makers and entrepreneurs focus their attention on returning humans to the Moon’s surface [1-3], we should not forget the contributions made by our friend and colleague Dr. Paul […]
At 02:22 local time December 8 in China, a rocket carrying a lander and a rover was successfully launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province of China. The […]
Hadean-age rocks and minerals are very rare on Earth and provide insights into our planet’s early evolution more than four billion years ago. A new study by Tim Johnson and colleagues […]
En caso de que te lo hayas perdido, el eclipse lunar más largo del siglo XXI (1 hora y 43 minutos) ocurrió el 27 de julio. Desafortunadamente para los EE. […]
Jupiter’s moon, Io, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Studying the thermal emission from Io’s erupting volcanos can provide constraints on the composition of Io’s lavas, […]
Planetary aeolian dunes are a common feature within the solar system, and recent work has identified the potential presence of dunes on the dwarf planet, Pluto. The presence of these […]
The Lunar and Planetary Institute is pleased to announce the names of the students whose research will be supported by The Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research. The 2018 […]
A post-doctoral position is available at York University (in Toronto) in the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science (CRESS) under the supervision of Professor James Whiteway. The project […]