On August 24th, a session of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), meeting in Prague, passed a resolution re-defining the planets of our solar system. Only about 428 of the IAU’s nearly 10,000 ...

Over the past several weeks, hundreds of meeting abstracts have quietly vanished from the websites of research conferences organized by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, Texas — a ...

This study will describe how international and national planetary protection policy has been formulated and adopted and identify associated lessons to inform future policy development. The National ...