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 ...

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

If you want to explore space with humans, water becomes one of the most critical commodities,” explains Mahesh Anand, a professor of planetary science and exploration at the ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

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

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

This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the planetary systems that orbit them. At the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, participants of the rapid ...

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.