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.