Credit: NASA Given the similarity between asteroid 2024 PT5’s motion and that of our planet’s, scientists at NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) suspect that the object could be a ...
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 ...
What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 19, 2025, the moon is 21 days old, in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 59% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...
For example, it looks to be pyroxene-rich, which indicates the rock came from an igneous or possibly metamorphic environment. Other asteroids aren't the same – they tend to be richer in olivine. Based ...