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A new paper by Alexander Peschel has been published in The Planetary Science Journal. The study presents a numerically efficient method to incorporate lunar surface topography into Monte Carlo exosphere simulations by sampling local slope and azimuth distributions. Applied to helium, neon, and… [read more]

Christian Gscheidle successfully defended his dissertation for his doctoral degree. [read more]

In September 2025, a group of our scientists took part in the International Meteor Conference (IMC) 2025 in Soest, the Netherlands. As part of the conference, they participated in the preceding Spectroscopy Workshop and presented their research in talks. The International Meteor Conference is an… [read more]

Attendance in the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025 in Helsinki, Finland. [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. [read more]

The radio report by Deutschlandfunk Kultur offers an insight into the development of the Bavarian space sector around the Ottobrunn site. Raumfahrt – Millionen aus dem Bund für bayrische Unternehmen (German only) The focus of the report is our EU project Ice2Thrust, in which Prof. Reiss and Prof.… [read more]

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]