May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
... expanded to include other planets, satellites, asteroids and meteorites, the Institute was renamed the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in 1978. The Lunar and Planetary Institute provides hands-on training in micromanipulation of small-scale...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
... rocket fuel for onward journeys to other planets. After the notification from NASA, the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), which supports the agency by providing analysis of scientific, technical, commercial...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... easy, of course. As the late Paul Spudis, a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, said in a 2017 essay on lunar settlement, we will need to “arrive, survive, and thrive…”. None of those things will be easy. But space challenges...
28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
... planet during the dawn of life,” says Dr. David Kring, a Universities Space Research Association (USRA) scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI). There is the possibility however that the sample actually did form on the Moon...
11 May 2020
Martian brines likely to be present, just not habitable says new study
... loose surface deposits known as Martian regolith. Now, a new study presented by a team of US astronomers and headed by Edgard Rivera-Valentín at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas, agrees that liquid brines on Mars may be more common...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... what? "Triton has always been one of the most exciting and intriguing bodies in the solar system," said Louise Prockter, director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute/Universities Space Research Association in Houston. As principal investigator, she...
