Scientists are exploring a bold new approach to protect Earth from dangerous asteroids: detonating nuclear devices to either ...

Two decades after Silverpit was discovered, Nicholson and colleagues revisited the controversy almost by chance. In 2022, fresh off the discovery of the Nadir Crater off West Africa, the team received ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black holes crashed into each other billions of light-years away. The result is a ...

CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. August 28, 2024 - Humanity's exploration of outer space is not only a scientific endeavor in the physical sciences, but also ...

Lower gravity. Higher radiation. No ER access. These are just a few of the challenges that humans face in outer space. Emily and Regina talk to a NASA astronaut (and astronaut scientist) about the ...

World leaders should look to existing international law on the use of force to address the threat of space becoming ever more militarized, a new study shows. World leaders should look to existing ...

April 2025 was a busy month for space. As a space lawyer and co-founder of For All Moonkind, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting human heritage in outer space, I know that the Moon could be the ...