In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...

The far side of the Moon has its own versions of the Grand Canyon—two of them, in fact! A new study explains how these deep ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

China has begun recruiting for a planetary defense force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of robotic systems, including spacecraft for ...