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As part of the KinderUni, Prof. Reiss gave the lecture “What treasures are there on the Moon?” on 10.01.2025. In addition to the lecture, there were numerous hands-on activities organised by the Chair of Lunar and Planetary Exploration and the Scientific Workgroup for Rocketry and Spaceflight for… [read more]

A group of our LPE researchers recently participated in the Europlanet Science Congress 2024 held at the Freie Universität Berlin. They presented their research through posters and talks, covering a variety of topics in planetary science. Their contributions included studies on the lunar exosphere,… [read more]

Der European Research Council has awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project VOLARIS by Prof. Dr. Philipp Reiss! TUM press release: https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/nine-erc-starting-grants-awarded-to-tum-researchers ERC project… [read more]

A new study by Xu et al. (2024) suggests the existence of a diamond layer at Mercury's core-mantel boundary. Prof Reiss was recently interviewed about this in a Tagesschau article and in the BR podcast IQ (German only) Article on tagesschau.de Podcast on br.de [read more]

This week, the European Lunar Symposium (ELS) took place in Dumfries, Scotland. The annual event is a unique showcase of current lunar science and exploration and covers a variety of research topics. All abstracts presented this year can be found on the ELS… [read more]

The Space Resources Week in Luxembourg is the largest international conference on Space Resources, with more than 500 visitors. Once again, we were strongly represented ­– here are some of the highlights: The presentation of Francisco Javier Guerrero-Gonzalez with the title "Developing… [read more]

On Saturday, January 20, 2024, at 10:48 PM, the Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky discovered a near-Earth asteroid and reported it to the Minor Planet Center, the international hub for observations of small bodies in the solar system. Initial analyses by ESA and NASA suggested that this… [read more]

Why should we go back to the Moon? Which lunar resources can we use and how? Can we protect the moon from overexploitation? Professor Philipp Reiss joined the latest episode of our student council's podcast "ON AIR - Actually Rocket Science" and took us on a journey to the Moon and beyond... Watch… [read more]

Auroras are frequent phenomena in Scandinavia during the winter months, which can also be seen from time to time in northern Germany. Rarely, these natural phenomena are visible from Bavaria. At the end of September (Night from September 24 to 25, 2023) a reddish glow (6300 Å), produced by oxygen… [read more]

This week, our team was in Padua, Italy, for the 11th edition of the European Lunar Symposium. With a record number of participants, it was once again an excellent showcase of current lunar science, technology development, and missions. As one of the highlights, ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer… [read more]