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Water distribution near moon’s south pole mapped using NASA SOFIA data

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the area near the moon's south pole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Fossil Trove in China Provides a Rare Window Into a Mass Extinction Event That Happened More Than 500 Million Years Ago

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Asteroid Has A 4% Chance Of Slamming Into The Moon, Here's What Will Happen If It Does

Early last year, there was talk that the newly-discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a really small, but probable chance of ...

Time-lapse orbit animation of OSIRIS-APEX's epic journey to asteroid Apophis

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...
Newsweek

NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth Today

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s hurtling towards Earth at more than 38,500 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to ...