''Earth, Moon, and Planets'' is a

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, published approximately ten times per year by

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. It was established in 1969 under the title ''The Moon'', was known as ''The Moon and the Planets'' from 1978 to 1983, and was first published under the current title in February 1984. The

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is Jamie D. Gilmour (

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). The journal's main focus is on research about the

Solar System The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Sola ...

. Besides original research articles, ''Earth, Moon, and Planets'' publishes conference proceedings, review articles, book reviews, and special issues.

Aims and scope

''Earth, Moon, and Planets'' focuses on

original research Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

articles on formation of stars and

planets A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. The Solar System has eight planets by the most restrictive definition of the te ...

, evolution of the

including its origin, and the evolution of extra-solar systems including their origins. The focus also includes

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...

comet A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. This produces an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere or Coma (cometary), coma surrounding ...

meteoroid A meteoroid ( ) is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are distinguished as objects significantly smaller than ''asteroids'', ranging in size from grains to objects up to wide. Objects smaller than meteoroids are classifie ...

s, and near-Earth objects, Earth impact hazards, the Solar System-Earth relationship, and related topics. Research coverage encompasses physical and

chemical properties A chemical property is any of a material property, material's properties that becomes evident during, or after, a chemical reaction; that is, any attribute that can be established only by changing a substance's chemical substance, chemical identit ...

of the above-mentioned celestial bodies, and their related chaotic behavior.

History

Under the title ''The Moon'', the journal was conceived by Zdeněk Kopal,

Hannes Alfvén Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now ...

, and

Harold Urey Harold Clayton Urey ( ; April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. He played a significant role in the ...

in 1969 in response to the Apollo 11 Moon Landing that same year. Its aim was to provide an interdisciplinary but monothematic medium for publication of the results of original investigations in all fields of lunar studies. It was published under the Dutch publisher Reidel, which would later join with

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and be merged into

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. In 1978, the journal broadened its scope to the full solar system, changing its name to ''The Moon and the Planets''. In 1983, the journal changed its name once again to ''Earth, Moon, and Planets'' as it expanded to cover the study of the Earth from a planetary sciences standpoint. The journal's Editors-in-Chief have been Zdeněk Kopal, Vladímir Vanýsek, Mark E. Bailey, Giovanni Valsecchi, Murthy S. Gudipati, and Jamie D. Gilmour.

Rebranding

In 2024, the journal was re-launched under the name ''Discover Space'' as a fully open-access journal that supports multidisciplinary research and policy developments across all fields relevant to space science.

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:

References

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