Just when we thought we'd learned from the past, humanity is preparing to repeat its most destructive habits—this time, in ...

The cosmos has always beckoned humanity, a canvas of infinite possibilities and mysteries yet to be unraveled. For decades, ...

We must take our best ethical thinking with us as we cross the frontier of space exploration. Margaret R. McLean is assistant director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara ...

NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability ...

There’s a lot of Wild West frontier American mythology seeped ... We’ll find out. What are the space ethics questions that people aren’t thinking enough about yet? Crime in space is ...

In the paper, the team proposes ethical guidelines for commercial space research based on four principles ... lead these conversations on astroethics and help shape and impact the next frontier of ...

The idea for the ethical framework came from a research ethics ... responsibility for the resources we take up to expand this frontier, while being mindful of how resource investments in space will ...

Comfort aside, the rise of space tourism raises a host of ethical problems ranging from the safety of passengers (for this, one travel insurance company has recently announced space tourism ...