SKLPlanets is gradually focusing on three research directions: planetary environment and habitability, planetary formation and evolution, and space/surface exploration.

The main research objectives include studies on the near-Earth space, the Moon, Mars, small celestial bodies, gas giant planets, planetary magnetic fields, the entire solar layer, encompassing radiation belts around the Earth, solar wind interactions with the Moon and planets (including small celestial bodies), boundary detection of the solar layer, planetary internal structures and gravity fields, planetary internal fluid and magnetohydrodynamics, planetary surface impact craters, planetary topography, planetary surface material properties, planetary surface environment, planetary atmospheric dynamics, sampling/meteorite analysis, astrobiology, forms of life under extreme environments, terrestrial analogue location of astrobiological relevance, space biotechnology, and other research topics.