May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
...of the LSI in December 1969. Six decades after its founding, LPI remains an intellectual leader in lunar and planetary science Under its first Director, Dr William W. Rubey, operations began in temporary offices at the Manned Spacecraft Center before...
20 March 2017
Scientists challenge how planets are defined
...a justification for that definition at the upcoming Lunar and Planetary Science conference which is being held this week in Texas....a planet as Runyon’s proposal is more useful to planetary scientists and as many are closely affiliated with geology and...
19 March 2019
New data from InSight shows a contrasting Mars
At the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in Houston, Texas this week,...which are designed to give the most thorough examination yet of our nearest planetary neighbour. Already firmly planted on the ground and hidden under a protective ...
16 March 2016
Fog looms large on Titan
... were extracted from images that were retrieved from the Planetary Science Archive. From the 82 images that were analysed,...a great example of why it's so important that the Nasa Planetary data is accessible to the public. It allows other scientists ...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
... the near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) population is a focus of intense research and now scientists based at the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), Tucson, Arizona, who have analysed the combined observations of nine of the leading asteroid surveys...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... raw materials needed to support human life in otherwise hostile environments. For a couple of engineers, the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in 2019 opened a window to a world, not too far away, where robots and astronauts alike routinely...
