The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship provides exceptional postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.

The percentage of human deaths caused by interpersonal violence reflects our membership of a particularly violent clade of mammals, although changes in socio-political organization have led to marked ...

The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship position at the University of California, Santa Cruz, funded by the Moore Foundation. The searc...

Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, is presumed to be a trans-Neptunian object that was later captured by the ice giant. Thermal evolution modelling shows that the capture may have provided energy to gene...

Impacts have ejected billions of tons of material from Earth and Mars that subsequently reached Venus We compute the fraction of that material that could survive atmospheric entry and then disper...

Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded.

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The Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in August 2026. We welcome applicati...

From the Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences

Venus is a Solar System enigma. Similar in size to Earth and orbiting the Sun at a similar distance, it is remarkable how the two planets evolved so differently. While conditions on Earth allowed life...

Whistlers were a key piece of evidence in favor of Venusian lightning. New measurements question the connection.

The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight

More than 2 Ga, metamorphism of Ceres's rocky interior released hydrothermal fluids that could have fed microorganisms.

The erosion of canali on Venus by carbonatite lavas transformed Venus’ atmosphere within the recent past.

Crowd sourced list of people who are looking for MS/PhD students to help connect prospective students with advisors so we can do even more fabulous planetary science! (Submitting a response indicates ...

The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship provides exceptional postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.