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

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 ...

Dr. Pascal Lee is a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, Mars Institute and NASA Ames Research Center in California.

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 ...

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.

In light of the threat of an asteroid collision in 2032, China has launched a recruitment campaign for a "planetary defense ...

When it comes to sending humans back to the moon, knowing how to work with the regolith that coats the ground will be make-or-break. Phil Metzger is studying how to mitigate its dangers and use it as ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...