The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck
The Centre for Planetary Sciences (CPS) at UCL/Birkbeck is one of the United Kingdom's leading centres for planetary and exoplanetary science. CPS members play key, and sometimes leading, roles in planetary space missions such as Cassini Huygens, ExoMars Rosalind Franklin, JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Exoplanet Large-survey), PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) and Comet Interceptor. The Centre continues to be involved in the European Union-funded Europlanet project that brings together Europe's major planetary science centres.
The CPS houses expertise in understanding planets from their deep interiors, through their surfaces and atmospheres, to their space environment. This expertise is complemented by world leaders in astronomy, terrestrial and solar science, life and chemical sciences.