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 a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

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 ...

Research Indicates Uranus Moon to Have Hidden Oceans, Trenches on Ariel Could Reflect Subsurface Water Recent studies led by ...

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

Is life as rare as we once believed? A new Penn State study suggests that intelligent life is more likely than previously ...

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.

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