British Planetary Science Conference 2026

We'd just like to thank EVERYONE who came along to BPSC2026, who made it such a friendly, fascinating and supportive conference! Here's to BSPC2028!

Our final keynote of the conference is by Thomas Barrett (Manchester + Lunar and Planetary Institute): 'Probing the early lunar crust: volatile measurements in paired troctolites' 🌙 #BPSC26

Carly Howett (Oxford): 'Surface Temperatures of the Outer Solar System’s Major Satellites – and Implications for Observing Them' #BPSC26

Vincent Okoth (Edinburgh): 'Tracing Coma Jets and Nucleus Rotation in Comets via Narrowband Imaging' #BPSC26

Jake Hanlon (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL): 'Identifying a comet dust tail disruption event with temporal mapping' #BPSC26

Anna Parsec-Wallis (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London): 'Further analysis into the plumes of Enceladus' #BPSC26

Georgina Miles (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder + Oxford): 'Constraining Enceladus’ conductive heat flux' #BPSC26

Icy Worlds & Astrobiology session 🥶👾 Angus Aldis (Open University): 'Microbes ejected into terrestrial aerosol plumes formed by mechanisms relevant to those at Enceladus' #BPSC26

Hyunseong Kim (Glasgow): 'Roles of lateral variation in surface temperature and tidal heating in Europa’s ice shell' #BPSC26

Kya Sorli (Oxford): 'Detangling Endogenic Heat Signatures on Europa Through Thermophysical Modelling' #BPSC26

Conor Nixon (NASA Goddard): 'Terrestrial Field Analogs for Titan Geophysical Research' #BPSC26

Solomon Hirsch (Imperial College London): 'Organic biosignatures from alkaline hydrothermal environments at icy moons' #BPSC26

Nicole Sutherland (Natural History Museum, London + UCL): 'Novel salt hydrates at the conditions of icy worlds' #BPSC26

Duncan Lyster (Oxford): 'Thermophysical Modelling of Europa's Surface: Detectability of Habitability Indicators' #BPSC26

Hannah Chinnery (Open University): 'Microstructure Controls Sublimation Timescales of Exposed Salt-Rich Ices on Icy Worlds' #BPSC26

Rachael Hamp (Open University): 'Sodium Chloride Hydrates as a Proxy for Ocean Fluid Freezing Rates on Icy Worlds' #BPSC26

Icy Worlds session 🥶 ❄️ Mark Fox-Powell (Open University): 'Large volumes of eutectic brines quasi-stable under near-vacuum conditions' #BPSC26