News & Events
— December 9, 2024

Call for Nominations for Chair and Vice-Chair of Europlanet Diversity Committee We invite nominations for one Chair and one Vice-Chair position on the Diversity Committee of Europlanet. Deadline for nominations: […]


— October 25, 2024

With the exponential growth in EPEC activities across EPEC working groups since its launch and with the term of our current EPEC committee Co-Chairs ending, the EPEC Committee is looking for one elected Committee Co-Chair for the next term to help sustain the Committee activities. The term of the elected EPEC Committee Co-Chairs will be two years with an option to extend for an additional year. The expected time commitment of the elected EPEC Chair is approximately two hours per week averaged over one year. However, an increased commitment is expected during the EPEC Annual Week and EPSC organizing weeks.


— September 13, 2024

Gravity Study Gives Insights into Hidden Features Beneath Lost Ocean of Mars and Rising Olympus Mons Studies of gravity variations at Mars have revealed dense, large-scale structures hidden beneath the […]


— September 13, 2024

Movie of BepiColombo’s Fourth Mercury Flyby Presented at EPSC2024 Watch the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September […]


— September 11, 2024

EPSC2024: JunoCam Spots New Volcano on Active Io A new volcano has been spotted on Jupiter’s moon Io, the most geologically active place in the Solar System. Analysis of the […]


— September 10, 2024

Announcement of Venues for EPSC 2026 and 2027 The Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) Executive Committee is delighted to announce that EPSC2026 will be hosted at the Amare venue in The Hague, […]


— September 10, 2024

Cloud Atlas of Mars Showcases Array of Atmospheric Phenomena Cloud enthusiasts have a new tool to investigate striking formations in the skies above the Red Planet. A browsable database of […]


— September 9, 2024

Farinella Prize 2024 Awarded to Ravit Helled EPSC2024 Press Release  Prof Ravit Helled, of the University of Zurich in Switzerland, has been awarded the 2024 Paolo Farinella Prize for her outstanding contributions […]


— September 4, 2024

Issue 7 of the Europlanet Magazine is out now! In this issue: In Focus A round up of news from Europlanet and the planetary community, including: News from Europlanet• Beyond the Europlanet 2024 […]


— November 8, 2024

Expert Exchange: Collaboration between the Ichnology, Sedimentology, and Substrate Group (University of Buenos Aires) and the Astrobiological and Geomicrobiological Lab (University of Bologna) Europlanet 2024 RI’s Expert Exchange Programme aims […]


— October 3, 2024

22-EPN3-054: Searching for Biosignatures in Extreme Environments – High-Altitude Andean lakes as Mars analogues Visit by Fernando J. Gomez of CICTERRA (Argentina) to TA2 Facility 29 – Nano Secondary Ion […]


— October 3, 2024

22-EPN3-015: Trace Element Partitioning Between (Mg,Ca)S and Highly Reduced Magmas – Implications for the Volatile Budget and Thermal Evolution of Mercury Visit by Laurie Llado and Yishen Zhang of the […]


— October 3, 2024

20-EPN2-114: Microbial Adaptation in the Hypersaline Environment of Sua Pan Evaporator Ponds in Botswana and Implications for Search for Life on Mars (Part 2 – Microbial Characterisation) Visit by Claudia […]


— October 3, 2024

22-EPN3-036: Investigating Titanium and Chromium Isotopes in Unusual Achondrite NWA 8564 Visit by Julia Cartwright of University of Alabama (USA) to TA2.14 ETH Zurich Geo- and Cosmochemistry Isotope Facility (Switzerland).Dates […]


— October 3, 2024

22-EPN3-059: Electron Impact Induced Emission of Formamide – Excitation Processes Study Visit by Frantisek Krcma, Brno University of Technology (Czechia), to TA2 Facility 13 – Electron Induced Fluorescence Laboratory (Slovakia).Dates […]


— October 3, 2024

22-EPN3-035: Survival of chondrites in humid climate (Germany & Europe) Visit by Silke Merchel of University of Vienna (Austria) to TA2 Facility 16 – Carbon-14 Dating AMS Laboratory (Hungary).Dates of […]


— October 3, 2024

22-EPN3-027: Dust-Carbon-Climate Feedbacks Tested Through Detailed Independent Dating of Arctic Wind-Blown Dust Sequences on Greenland (Part 2 – Laboratory Analyses) Visit by Thomas Stevens of Uppsala University (Sweden) to TA2 […]