Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)
Annual planetary-science meeting hosted by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI/USRA) in Houston; a primary venue for new mission and modeling results across the solar system. The 2026 edition is the venue at which the jhuapl/sandia-national-laboratories team presented Earth-to-Venus panspermia modeling using the venus-life-equation (per src-venus-panspermia-earth-origin-2026-04).
The 57th LPSC also hosted the Orpheus Mars hopper mission proposal by connor-bunn and pascal-lee (seti-institute), targeting Cerberus Fossae volcanic vents for extant-life biosignatures (src-orpheus-mars-volcanic-hopper-2026-04).