Space archaeology needs to mix new and old missions to protect ancient sites, scientists urged at a recent NASA conference. Take the example of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern ...

an archaeology professor at Texas Tech University, told attendees at a NASA-led space archaeology conference Sept. 18 to which Space.com received an exclusive invite. Archaeologists are finding ...

Archaeology is a messy business ... Some 400 miles up in space, satellites collect images that are used to identify buried landscapes with astonishing precision. Like medical scans that let ...

As a private lunar industry nears liftoff, preservationists seek to guard the artifacts from the first space race. In 2011 NASA made a nonbinding request that no craft land within a 1.2-mile ...

And just like we use artifacts and features to track our movement, evolution, and history on Earth, we can do that in outer space by following probes, satellites, landers, and various materials ...