Pleased to report that Dr. Brittany Miles @bemiles.bsky.social of Steward Observatory now has a joint appointment in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory! This will enable Brittany to work with and advise LPL graduate students as they pursue their degrees. lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/join...
Faculty with Courtesy Joint Appointments | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory & Department of Planetary Sciences
The Department of Planetary Sciences/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is an academic institution that pursues scholarly research and education across the broad discipline of planetary and solar systems ...
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November 3, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Delighted to be a finalist for Science Breakthrough of the Year at the Global Space Awards! 🚀🛰️💫 I have been nominated for my work tracing solar wind measured by ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter back to its sources on the Sun!🌞 Massive thanks to my collaborators and colleagues 🙌 Congrats to all finalists!👏
November 3, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Congratulations to PSI's JA Grier, the new chair of AAS' DPS! 🎉
JA stepped into the role at #DPS2026, bringing decades of experience in planetary science research, education, and community leadership.
Read more: buff.ly/1wepPIy
JA stepped into the role at #DPS2026, bringing decades of experience in planetary science research, education, and community leadership.
Read more: buff.ly/1wepPIy
November 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Welcome to PSI, Marley Chertok!
Marley studies the Moon's geologic history, using impact craters and surface features to uncover how it evolved and what future astronauts might encounter during lunar exploration.
We're excited to have Marley on the team!
Marley studies the Moon's geologic history, using impact craters and surface features to uncover how it evolved and what future astronauts might encounter during lunar exploration.
We're excited to have Marley on the team!
November 3, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Emma Schwartzman, recipient of the 2025 NRAO/AUI Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
PLUS: Applications for the 2026 NRAO/AUI Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award are open – due by December 15.
More info in thread ⤵️
PLUS: Applications for the 2026 NRAO/AUI Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award are open – due by December 15.
More info in thread ⤵️
November 3, 2026 at 10:14 PM
There are 5 major #WomenInSTEM with birthdays on Nov 4, but we are going to choose chemist Mary Sherman Morgan, born 105 years ago today, for special celebration. In the late 1950s she developed Hydyne, the rocket fuel behind the whole US space program. Here's her story!
tinyurl.com/ywh54cy4
tinyurl.com/ywh54cy4
A Bigger Boom: Mary Sherman Morgan, the World's First Woman Rocket Scientist.
On October 4, 1957, the United States received the greatest single blow to its prestige since the burning of the White House in 1814 with the announcement that the Soviet Union had become the first na...
tinyurl.com
November 4, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I'm excited to share that I am a @schmidtsciences.bsky.social FirstLight Awardee! My team will study how space weather affects the evolution of exoplanets using the upcoming Schmidt Observatory System.
Read more here: www.schmidtsciences.org/firstlight20...
Read more here: www.schmidtsciences.org/firstlight20...
November 3, 2026 at 10:32 PM
🌕 One last stop for our Moon month!
@esa.int Lunar Projects Group Leader Sara Pastor joins #ESAExplores to talk about Europe’s lunar ambitions and how what we learn at the Moon could help prepare us for Mars. 🚀🎧
Still up for one more Moon story? 😉 Tune in 👇
www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-i4...
@esa.int Lunar Projects Group Leader Sara Pastor joins #ESAExplores to talk about Europe’s lunar ambitions and how what we learn at the Moon could help prepare us for Mars. 🚀🎧
Still up for one more Moon story? 😉 Tune in 👇
www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-i4...
October 31, 2026 at 2:23 PM
I’m pleased to announce that I am stepping into a new role as Principal Investigator and Program Manager of NASA's Night Sky Network program, operated through @astrosociety.org! Night Sky Network serves over 400 member clubs and more than 12,000 amateur astronomers nationwide.
October 31, 2026 at 11:12 AM
I have been busy today updating my space weather dashboard! 🌞 🛰️ I have added: 304 and 131 Å data, magnetic field, field lines and open-field shading, SOHO coronagraphs (C2 & C3) and a proton spectrum hardness index. 👉️ forecast.stephyardley.com
Solar Steph Space Weather Dashboard
Live conditions from the Sun to Earth, with Earth's magnetic connection to the solar surface.
forecast.stephyardley.com
October 29, 2026 at 11:04 PM
October 29, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Great to see that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell is still being recognised and awarded for changing our view of the Universe!
🔭🧪 #RadioAstronomy #WomenInSTEM
🔭🧪 #RadioAstronomy #WomenInSTEM
UCD celebrates pioneering astrophysicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell with Ulysses Medal
www.ucd.ie
October 31, 2026 at 2:30 PM
And? jk 😁
I enjoy reading historical #WomanAstro work. I especially like personal journals, such as Maria Mitchell's.
I enjoy reading historical #WomanAstro work. I especially like personal journals, such as Maria Mitchell's.
October 30, 2026 at 2:57 PM
And? jk 😁
I enjoy reading historical #WomanAstro work. I especially like personal journals, such as Maria Mitchell's.
I enjoy reading historical #WomanAstro work. I especially like personal journals, such as Maria Mitchell's.
Moon earrings: On
Moon shirt: On
Moon skirt: On
Ready to give my Moon-forming impact talk at #DPS2026 😃
Moon shirt: On
Moon skirt: On
Ready to give my Moon-forming impact talk at #DPS2026 😃
October 28, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I'm excited to announce that I've been selected as a winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications (@scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org)!
Learn more:
www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa...
#scicomm
Learn more:
www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa...
#scicomm
October 26, 2026 at 11:20 PM
What a whirlwind week: 4 cities. 7 days. 9 plane rides...and a whole flurry of activity in between, from keynotes to panels to lab experiments to meetings to a charity soirée to teaching astronautics, all for the love of the game.
Same time next week? ✈️🚀✨️👩🏽🚀
Same time next week? ✈️🚀✨️👩🏽🚀
October 27, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Big news- I am a winner this year for the Wendy and Eric Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications!
More here: www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa... 🔭🧪🎢
More here: www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa... 🔭🧪🎢
October 27, 2026 at 12:45 AM
🎉 Congratulations to SETI Institute scientist Isabel Angelo on being named one of Science News’ 2026 SN 10: Scientists to Watch!
A wonderful recognition of her research! 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
www.societyforscience.org/press-releas...
A wonderful recognition of her research! 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
www.societyforscience.org/press-releas...
October 26, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Our 11yo daughter has grown up with two astronomer parents and that's probably too much astronomy for anyone.
She's reading the new Scott Reintgen book (The Void Dragons) and dropping 'stellar mass black holes' and 'primordial black holes' over the breakfast table and we're both like
She's reading the new Scott Reintgen book (The Void Dragons) and dropping 'stellar mass black holes' and 'primordial black holes' over the breakfast table and we're both like
Giddy Little Girl
Alt: Giddy Little Girl smiles sideways at someone offscreen.
static.klipy.com
October 26, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Excited to announce that after popular demand I have now created a space weather dashboard on my website, you can access it here: forecast.stephyardley.com 🌞 🛰️ Suggestions welcome!
Solar Steph Space Weather Dashboard
Live conditions from the Sun to Earth, with Earth's magnetic connection to the solar surface.
forecast.stephyardley.com
October 25, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Just finishing up 2 weeks in Spain at the MDSCC (Madrid Deep Space Comm Complex). Really enjoyed working with everyone at the site great peeps. They've done so well recovering after the fires. While I was here we did the final tests on DSS-63, the 70m antenna. Back to work at JPL next week.
October 24, 2026 at 1:49 PM
All set for my AAS DPS talk next Friday in Spokane about the wacky winds of Uranus, based on Keck 🔭 imaging. I am the first speaker in the "Outer Planets II" session, starting at 8:30 am 😭 in Room 111B. Hope to see my ice giant peeps there, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed . . .
October 24, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Dr Megan Argo: "As an astrophysicist, I think Japan’s bold new Mars moon mission will be a planetary game-changer." | Via BBC Sky at Night Magazine www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/astroph...
As an astrophysicist, I think Japan’s bold new Mars moon mission will be a planetary game-changer | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
An astrophysicist reveals the true science behind Japan's MMX mission to Mars's moon Phobos and why it will be so important.
www.skyatnightmagazine.com
October 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Check out this cool in-depth interview with @lkreidberg.bsky.social who's the director of our Atmospheric Physics of Exoplanets (APEx) department! 🔭🧪⚛️
Why This Astronomer Thinks Aliens Are Out There | Laura Kreidberg
YouTube video by Forecast 2050
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Look what just flew into view! 🪶✨
Meet the Seagull Nebula as seen by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's engineering test camera, ComCam. Two years ago this month, ComCam began on-sky testing — the first time Rubin opened its eye to the sky!
🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-c...
Meet the Seagull Nebula as seen by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's engineering test camera, ComCam. Two years ago this month, ComCam began on-sky testing — the first time Rubin opened its eye to the sky!
🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-c...
October 23, 2026 at 1:54 PM