This film tells the story of the making of the Smile mission, the first 50-50 techno-science collaboration between Europe and China (ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences). The story starts visua...

Presented by Poshan Belbase (The Catholic University of America and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) ML4PSP Seminar August 2026 Mars possesses a hybrid magnetosphere with a localized crustal magne...

Planetary science job announcements

We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.

Right after seeing that the Planetary Research journal began publishing its first papers, I checked the articles and letters, and especially the letter by Christian Renggli and others titled “The SiO2 abundance on the surfaces of the Moon and Mercury” piqued my interest immediately. Only some of the intriguing parts of the letter for me:...

Detailed budget information obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, Presidential Budget Requests and other sources within the government reveals that NASA has systematically failed to implement decades of recommendations by the National Academies as well as directives by Congress to grow the funding of planetary research and analysis programs (R&A) and meet specific funding...

Planetary Research is a community-led diamond open access journal that publishes original peer-reviewed scientific work in the broad field of planetary science. All articles are free to access, and au...

If you were to ask authors what they don't like about the peer review process, a common complaint would be the time it takes to get a decision from the journal. If it only takes a day or so for someone to read a manuscript and give feedback, then why does it sometimes take months...

It is my (James Green, former Planetary Science Division Director) understanding that continued New Horizons heliophysics measurements are threatened unless NASA finds a way for the Heliophysics Divis...

Have you ever needed to collect signatures to support a white paper, a mission concept or a proposal? Or have you ever organized some kind a petition that needed community support? If so, you probably realized that there are no good solutions. Many people use forms or shared spreadsheets, but…

Scientific research publishing is a particularly lucrative industry. The most recent estimates suggest that it generates around 19 billion US dollars (or 16.67 billion euros) in annual turnover, with margins of around 40 per cent. These staggering figures largely reflect the fact that the “Big Five” commercial publishers, such as Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor...

Rencontres Exobiologiques pour Doctorants 2026 (Astrobiology training school for Ph.D. students 2026)

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/29/2026-10817/regulation-for-federal-financial-assistance The following is my personal opinion and does not represent the view of the Planetary Science Institute and does not make any representations of behalf of the Planetary Science Institute. I have been an active planetary scientist for 45 years, funded by federal awards primarily from NASA. I have served on numerous NASA advisory [...]

A new job announcements platform for planetary science Planetary Research Jobs is a new online platform that centralizes job announcements in the field of planetary science. Any person can browse the website for free, and any person with an ORCID iD (which is almost everyone) can post an announcement at no cost. Job announcements can [...]

Bienvenus pour le 1er épisode d'une nouvelle série de webinaires de la SFE, promouvant les échanges entre chercheurs et grand public. Dans cette vidéos, nous parlons de différents parcours et étude...

A federated video streaming platform for planetary science.

Planetary Research Cooperative survey May 2026 The Planetary Research Cooperative is a new non-profit organization whose mission is to support the disse...

LiberaForms LiberaForms is free and open-source software that makes it easy to create and manage forms and surveys. With LiberaForms you can browse, ed...

The exploration of icy moons in the outer Solar System is entering a transformative era, building on the legacy of the Galileo mission at Jupiter and Cassini at Saturn, and driven by upcoming missions such as ESA’s JUICE, NASA’s Europa Clipper, and Dragonfly, as well as future mission concepts targeting Enceladus. These efforts offer unprecedented [...]

What lies beneath the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon? This question is central to the upcoming Dragonfly mission, which will deploy a drone equipped with scientific instruments on Titan’s surface in the coming years. Among them is a seismometer designed to record ground vibrations. But does Titan shake enough…

General assembly of the Planetary Research Cooperative March 30, 2026 Agenda Association overview (Present board members, upcoming elections, incoming president), Association internet services (Pla...

A federated video streaming platform for planetary science.

A Letter from the NASA Planetary Science Director, Dr. Louise M. Prockter: the Future of the Planetary Science Analysis and Assessment Groups (AGs)

A Letter from the NASA Planetary Science Director, Dr. Louise M. Prockter: the Future of the Planetary Science Analysis and Assessment Groups (AGs)