The Planetary Research Blog publishes short articles, commentaries, news items and personal stories about planetary science. Written by planetary scientists, these articles are intended to be accessible to both the broad planetary science community and the general public alike.
Anyone who is a member of the Planetary Research Cooperative may sign in to our site and submit a post. We publish content in one of five categories:
- Announcements: for events or news items that are of broad interest to the planetary science community.
- Careers: for job announcements and other open positions.
- Commentaries: for opinions about policies that affect the planetary science community.
- Planetary Research: for short summaries of articles that were published in the journal Planetary Research.
- Blogs: for anything else!
The Planetary Research Blog is published by the Planetary Research Cooperative, which is a French non-profit association that supports the dissemination of scientific research in the field of planetary science. The association publishes the journal Planetary Research, which is the only diamond open access scientific journal devoted exclusively to planetary science. The association also hosts several online services that aim to foster interactions among planetary scientists and that allow researchers to share their work, including SolarSystem.video (a Peertube video server), SolarSystem.social (a Mastodon social media server), and SolarSystem.forum (a Mattermost server for collaboration).
All content on our blog is free to access without restriction and may be shared with others under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The website uses the WordPress software and is self-hosted at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris. The privacy policy of the Planetary Research Cooperative can be read here.