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 ...

Tom writes mainly about science, space, archaeology, the Earth and the oceans. He has also written for the BBC, NBC News, National Geographic, Scientific American, Air & Space, and many others.

the variety of artifacts uncovered as evidence for daily life and the history of the excavations. Consider Death. It is a universal human phenomenon. Humans across time and space have caused, planned ...

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 ...