EPSC
March 27, 2025

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025 Call-for-Abstracts The call for abstracts is now open for the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025, to be held at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, from 7–12 September 2025. […]

The winner of the Paolo Farinella Prize 2023, Ravit Helled, and the joint winners of the 2023 Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement, Daniela de Paulis and El Mehdi Essaidi, stand on the stage with their awards at the Europlanet Science Congress in Berlin.
EPSC
March 14, 2025

Europlanet Announces Career Medals – Call Now Open Deadline for nominations: 15 April 2025  Europlanet has launched a new annual set of awards. The Europlanet Career Medals are an opportunity to honour […]

An early career researcher at EPSC2024 presents their poster to other participants at the meeting
EPSC
January 14, 2025

EPSC2024 Outstanding Poster Contest Awardees The EPSC Outstanding Poster Contest (OPC) is an opportunity for early career researchers to have their work recognised at EPSC. Posters entered for the EPSC2024 […]

EPSC
September 13, 2024

Gravity Study Gives Insights into Hidden Features Beneath Lost Ocean of Mars and Rising Olympus Mons Studies of gravity variations at Mars have revealed dense, large-scale structures hidden beneath the […]

EPSC
September 13, 2024

Movie of BepiColombo’s Fourth Mercury Flyby Presented at EPSC2024 Watch the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September […]

Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC)

The Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) is the major European meeting on planetary science.

EPSC-DPS 2025

EPSC 2025 will be held jointly with the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) in Helsinki, Finland: https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu

The joint meeting, which will take place at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, Finland, from 7-12 September 2025, is expected to attract an international audience of 1700+ participants.

Finlandia Hall, Helskinki, venue for the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025.
Finlandia Hall, Helskinki, venue for the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025. Credit: Daderot

Europlanet will offer bursaries to support early career scientists from Europe and participants from under-represented countries; details will be announced by the beginning of March, with the application process integrated into abstract submission for the EPSC-DPS2025 Meeting (deadline 07 May 2025).

About EPSC

The Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) is the major European meeting on planetary science. Originally known as the European Planetary Science Congress, the first EPSC was held in Berlin in 2006. EPSC is the main dissemination platform for the European planetary science community and is the annual meeting of the Europlanet Society.  EPSC meetings cover the entire scope of planetary sciences and have a distinctively interactive style, with an extensive mix of talks, workshops and posters, intended to provide a stimulating environment for the community to meet.

More about EPSC.

List of past EPSC meetings.

EPSC Outstanding Poster Competition

The EPSC Outstanding Poster Competition (OPC) is an opportunity for early career researchers to have their work recognised at EPSC.

EPSC OPC 2024 Awardees

EPSC OPC Past Winners.

Future Meetings

  • EPSC-DPS 2025: Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, 7-12 September 2025
  • EPSC 2026 will be hosted for the first time in the Netherlands at the Amare venue in The Hague from 6-11 September 2026.
  • EPSC 2027 will be held at the Pierre Baudis Congress Centre in Toulouse, France, from 19-24 September 2027.

Outreach and Education at EPSC

The Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) is an opportunity for sharing the latest developments in planetary science with communities hosting Europlanet’s annual meeting and around the world, as well as a platform for discussing tools, approaches, outcomes and innovations within the planetary outreach and education community.

Find out more about outreach and education activities at EPSC2024.

EPSC News
— March 27, 2025

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025 Call-for-Abstracts The call for abstracts is now open for the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025, to be held at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, from 7–12 September 2025. […]


— March 14, 2025

Europlanet Announces Career Medals – Call Now Open Deadline for nominations: 15 April 2025  Europlanet has launched a new annual set of awards. The Europlanet Career Medals are an opportunity to honour […]


— January 14, 2025

EPSC2024 Outstanding Poster Contest Awardees The EPSC Outstanding Poster Contest (OPC) is an opportunity for early career researchers to have their work recognised at EPSC. Posters entered for the EPSC2024 […]


— September 13, 2024

Gravity Study Gives Insights into Hidden Features Beneath Lost Ocean of Mars and Rising Olympus Mons Studies of gravity variations at Mars have revealed dense, large-scale structures hidden beneath the […]


— September 13, 2024

Movie of BepiColombo’s Fourth Mercury Flyby Presented at EPSC2024 Watch the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September […]


— September 11, 2024

EPSC2024: JunoCam Spots New Volcano on Active Io A new volcano has been spotted on Jupiter’s moon Io, the most geologically active place in the Solar System. Analysis of the […]


— September 10, 2024

Announcement of Venues for EPSC 2026 and 2027 The Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) Executive Committee is delighted to announce that EPSC2026 will be hosted at the Amare venue in The Hague, […]


— September 10, 2024

Cloud Atlas of Mars Showcases Array of Atmospheric Phenomena Cloud enthusiasts have a new tool to investigate striking formations in the skies above the Red Planet. A browsable database of […]


— September 9, 2024

Farinella Prize 2024 Awarded to Ravit Helled EPSC2024 Press Release  Prof Ravit Helled, of the University of Zurich in Switzerland, has been awarded the 2024 Paolo Farinella Prize for her outstanding contributions […]


— September 9, 2024

EPSC2024: Final Media Invitation and Details of Media Briefings ESA Hera Mission – One Month Before Launch; Updates on the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo Mission to Mercury: The Closest Flyby of a […]