Planetary and Space Science publishes original articles as well as short communications (letters). Ground-based and space-borne instrumentation and laboratory simulation of solar system processes are included. The following fields of planetary and solar system research are covered: 
• Celestial mechanics, including dynamical evolution of the solar system, gravitational captures and resonances, relativistic effects, tracking and dynamics 
• Cosmochemistry and origin, including all aspects of the formation and initial physical and chemical evolution of the solar system 
• Terrestrial planets and satellites, including the physics of the interiors, geology and morphology of the surfaces, tectonics, mineralogy and dating 
• Outer planets and satellites, including formation and evolution, remote sensing at all wavelengths and in situ measurements 
• Planetary atmospheres, including formation and evolution, circulation and meteorology, boundary layers, remote sensing and laboratory simulation 
• Planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, including origin of magnetic fields, magnetospheric plasma and radiation belts, and their interaction with the sun, the solar wind and satellites 

• Small bodies, dust and rings, including asteroids, comets and zodiacal light and their interaction with the solar radiation and the solar wind 
• Exobiology, including origin of life, detection of planetary ecosystems and pre-biological phenomena in the solar system and laboratory simulations 
• Extrasolar systems, including the detection and/or the detectability of exoplanets and planetary systems, their formation and evolution, the physical and chemical properties of the exoplanets 
• History of planetary and space research

Research paper, Invited Review article, Discussion, Rapid communication

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Angelo Pio Rossi
Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Board of Advisory Editors
Dr. Jean Eudes Arlot
Institut de Mecanique Celeste, Paris, France
Professor Alexander Basilevsky
Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation
Dr. Regis Courtin
Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund
Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
Dr. Thérèse Encrenaz
Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
Professor Shuanggen Jin
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China
Dr. Chris McKay
NASA Space Science Division, Moffett Field, California, USA
Professor Francois Raulin
Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), Créteil Cedex, France
Professor Chris Russell
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA
Dr. Olivier Witasse
ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Dr. Ludmila Zasova
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation