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Astronomical Distance Determination in the Space Age

This Topical Collection highlights the tremendous amount of recent and continuing research into a myriad of exciting and promising aspects of accurately pinning down the cosmic distance scale. It offers not ...
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Auroral Physics

This collection is designed to provide a comprehensive review of our current scientific understanding of the terrestrial aurora, both observational and theoretical, with an emphasis on developments since a p...
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Cosmic Dust from the Laboratory to the Stars

Edited by Rafael Rodrigo, Jürgen Blum, Hsiang-Wen Hsu, Detlef Koschny, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Jesús Martín-Pintado, Veerle Sterken and Andrew Westphal
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Evolution of the Solar System: Constraints from Meteorites

This collection presents research from the ISSI Workshop "Constraints from Meteorites", held 5–9 June 2023, from research on primitive meteorites and how results fit into theoretical models of the early sola...
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Ongoing

ExoMars-16

The first mission of the ExoMars programme consists of the Trace Gas Orbiter plus an Entry, descent and landing Demonstrator Module, known as Schiaparelli. The main objectives of this mission are to search f...
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In Situ Exploration of the Giant Planets

Based on a workshop held July 12–14, 2022 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, this series of articles extends the previous Space Science Reviews collection "In Situ Exploration of the...
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Ocean Worlds

Edited by Athena Coustenis, Tilman Spohn, Rafael Rodrigo, Kevin P. Hand, Alexander Hayes, Karen Olsson-Francis, Frank Postberg, Christophe Sotin, Gabriel Tobie, Francois Raulin and Nicolas Walter
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Oscillatory Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae

In 2019, the solar physics research community celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first detection of oscillatory processes in the solar corona as a quasi-periodic pulsation (QPP) of an X-ray and radio emi...
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OSIRIS-REx

In May of 2011, NASA selected the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) asteroid sample return mission as the third mission in the New Frontie...
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OSIRIS-REx: Special Communications

Special Communications related to the previous Topical Collection on OSIRIS-REx published in Space Science Reviews. In addition to invited review papers and topical collections, Space Science Reviews publish...
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Solar and Stellar Dynamos: a New Era

This collection presents results from the ISSI Workhop "Solar and Stellar Dynamos: a New Era", held 13–17 June 2022, which aimed to take stock of the considerable progress in our understanding of many aspect...
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Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)

SMILE is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). SMILE will image for the first time in soft X-rays and EUV up to 40 hours per orbit continously, im...
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Open
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31 December 2024

Star Formation

This collection provides a timely and comprehensive overview of multi-wavelength observations and theoretical understanding of star formation in the wide astrophysical context. It aims to to review the major...
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Strong Gravitational Lensing

This collection presents results from the ISSI Workhop "Strong Gravitational Lensing", held 18–22 July 2022, which aimed to take stock of the considerable progress in our understanding of many aspects of str...
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Ongoing

Supernovae

In recent years, intense study has yielded great insight into the physics of supernovae and their impact on a very wide variety of subjects from cosmology to astrobiology. The growth of observational informa...
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The ASIM mission on the International Space Station

The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) is an instrument suite on the International Space Station (ISS) for measurements of lightning, Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flas...
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The BepiColombo mission to Mercury

BepiColombo is a joint mission between ESA and JAXA, to perform a comprehensive exploration of Mercury. Launched in October 2018, the spacecraft is now en route to Mercury and is scheduled to begin orbiting ...
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The Emirates Mars Mission

The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) was launched to Mars in the summer of 2020, and is the first interplanetary spacecraft mission undertaken by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The mission has multiple programma...
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The Huoxing-1 (HX-1) / Tianwen-1 (TW-1) mission to Mars

This Topical Collection reviews the scientific objectives of earlier and current Mars exploration missions, and introduce the scientific objectives, payloads and preliminary scientific exploration plan of Ch...
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The InSight Mission to Mars II

The Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) Mission will focus on Mars’ interior structure and evolution. The basic structure of crust, mantle, and core form ...
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The InSight Mission to Mars: Special Communications

Special Communications related to the previous Topical Collections The InSight Mission to Mars II and The InSight Mission to Mars I published in Space Science Reviews. In addition to invited review papers an...
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The Lucy Mission

NASA’s Lucy mission is the first space mission to explore the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive asteroids orbiting in tandem with Jupiter. The spacecraft launched on October 16, 2021 on an Atlas V ...
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The Mars 2020 Mission

NASA’s Mars 2020 mission successfully landed the Perseverance rover in Jezero crater on February 18, 2021. This article collection provides the definitive pre-landing documentation about the Mars 2020 missio...
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The Mars 2020 Mission: Special Communications

Special Communications related to the previous Topical Collection on The Mars 2020 Mission published in Space Science Reviews. In addition to invited review papers and topical collections, Space Science Revi...
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The NASA Psyche Mission: Science Instruments and Investigations

The Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name that lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft will orbit the asteroid for nearly two years to investigate...
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Open
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Ongoing

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