[NASA] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate (HSMD) have released the final text of the fifth Solar System Exploration Research […]
Exploration
Posted inEducation and Outreach
NASA ExoExplorers Program: Call For ExoGuide Nominations
This ExoExplorers program, sponsored by NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program Office and the ExoPAG Executive Committee, will focus on the professional development of ~10 graduate student and/or postdoc researchers (“ExoExplorers”) by […]
Posted inWater/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
MBARI Ocean World Expedition: Movement In The Deep
Editor’s note: When we start to mount Astrobiology missions to explore ocean worlds we’ll need ways for our robotic submersibles to observe and interact with whatever life forms they may […]
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Posted inReports, Roadmaps, & Plans
The Cross-Survey Decade: A Call to Action
[astro-ph.IM] By 2027, three flagship wide-field surveys will be operating simultaneously from ground and space, observing overlapping sky and representing more than $6 billion in US and European public investment.
Posted inMissions & Hardware
Planetary Recon: Interworld Slingshot Resource Surveys
[NASA] This proposal explores a new class of reconnaissance spacecraft that map minerals from orbit using Raman spectroscopy during high-speed flybys–without landing, sample return, or extended dwell. Editor’s note: for […]
Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Meeting (Hybrid)
Dear OPAG Community, We are pleased to announce that the Outer Planets Assessment Group will host a Community meeting September 22-23, 2026. This meeting will be a virtual meeting and will […]
2027 Sagan Summer Workshop Exoplanet Masses: In the Era of Gaia and Extreme Precision Radial Velocities
The workshop will be hybrid, with both in-person and remote attendance. The Sagan Summer Workshops are aimed at advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs; however, we welcome attendees at […]
2nd European Interstellar Symposium
Hosted by The Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts in association with The Interstellar Research Group and The International Academy of Astronautics. The aim is to bring together a […]
European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2027
The annual meeting of the EAS, formerly EWASS conference, has been organised since 2014 by the EAS in collaboration with a local Hosting Committee and with the support of a […]
American Astronomical Society AAS 249th Meeting
The 249th AAS meeting (joint with the Historical Astronomy Division) will be held 10–14 January 2027 in Salt Lake City at the Salt Palace Convention Center.