Session ID#: 13390 Session Description: A close collaboration between science, technology and exploration will enable deeper understanding of the Moon and other airless bodies as we move further out of […]
2016 Planetary Science Short Course (PLANETSC 9603A) Offered through the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), the Department of Earth Sciences, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University […]
The Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP-2017) workshop will be a forum to discuss our current understanding of the surface environment of the Moon, […]
Asia Oceania Geosciences Conference 2016 July 31 – Aug 5, Beijing, China Conference website Abstract submission deadline: extended to March 4, 2016 Session Description: Recent years have provided us with […]
First Announcement #newviews2 May 24–26, 2016 Houston, Texas The New Views of the Moon 2 workshop will be held May 24–26, 2016, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, which is located in the […]
Microsymposium 57: Polar Volatiles on the Moon and Mercury: Nature, Evolution and Future Exploration The Woodlands Waterway Marriott, Montgomery Ballroom, The Woodlands, Texas, March 19-20, 2016. The Microsymposium 57 program […]
Dear Community, We would like to make you aware of our Moon-session at the 26th Goldschmidt Conferences that will take place in Yokohama, Japan between the 26th June and 1st […]
APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE EXPLORATION SCIENCE SUMMER INTERN PROGRAM The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) is hosting a special Exploration Science Summer […]
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has begun transmitting its latest images of Saturn’s icy, geologically active moon Enceladus, acquired during the dramatic Oct. 28 flyby in which the probe passed about 30 […]
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon – and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent […]
On September 19, 2015 the world will join together in an annual celebration of lunar and planetary science and exploration: International Observe the Moon […]
LEAG Annual Meeting Abstract Deadline Reminder — August 11, 2015, 5:00 PM CDT! The Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group will be held October 20–22, 2015 at USRA Headquarters in Columbia, […]
Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by NASA’s New Horizons team, just one day after […]
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is hosting a special Exploration Science Summer Intern Program to build on the success of the former Lunar Exploration Summer Intern Program that was […]
Using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), mission scientists have solved a lunar mystery almost as old as the Moon itself. Early theories suggested the craggy outline […]
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. Like an old film, Voyager’s historic footage of Triton […]
Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter’s moon Io within a two-week period in August of last year. This led astronomers to speculate that such “outbursts,” which can send material […]
A close collaboration between science, technology and exploration will enable deeper understanding of the Moon and other airless bodies as we move further out of low-Earth orbit. The new Solar System Exploration Research […]
Scientists combined observations from two NASA missions to check out the moon’s lopsided shape and how it changes under Earth’s sway – a response not seen from orbit before. The […]
Ground controllers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have confirmed that NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft impacted the surface of the moon, as […]