The International Planetary Data Alliance (IPDA) was founded 16 years ago as a closely cooperating partnership among national planetary archives across the globe. The IPDA members have a common goal to maintain and improve the quality and interoperability of planetary data archives through common standards and formats. The IPDA promotes international use and reuse of high-quality scientific data across its member archives.

Founded in 1660, The Royal Society is a charitable organisation based in the UK which recognises, promotes, and supports excellence in science. Its journals – Proceedings A, Royal Society Open Science and Philosophical Transactions A - offer publishing options for research, reviews and theme issues within the planetary sciences. To find out more, visit our exhibition booth or our website at royalsociety.org/journals.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is dedicated to the peaceful exploration and use of space for the benefit of everyone. Established in 1975, it now has 22 Member States and for more than 45 years has promoted European scientific and industrial interests in space. ESA maintains a world-leading Science Programme with missions in heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics, and fundamental physics.

NoRCEL’s primary aim is to bring together people from various disciplines to investigate one of the most fundamental questions in science: how life began.This network of scientists investigates some of the multi-faceted aspects and challenges facing the scientific world. This has led to our more recent missions into exploring global issues, as with Blue Earth Project, as well as developing educational tools in an endeavour to enable wider access to astroscience, especially in the Global South.

The "Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science" is an integrated research museum within the Leibniz Association. It is one of the most important research institutions worldwide in the areas of biological and geological evolution and biodiversity, and it is also a centre for citizen science. The collection comprises over 30 million items covering zoology, palaeontology, geology and mineralogy and is of highest scientific and historical importance.

Open Access journal Space: Science & Technology, published in association with Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), promotes the interplay of science and technology for the benefit of all application domains of space activities. It particularly welcomes articles illustrating successful synergies in space programs and missions.