July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... asteroids like 253 Mathilde are mainly composed of carbon alongside mineral and ore deposits, and it is on these asteroids that sizeable water ice deposits are expected to be found. Governments go it alone The US government has set out its political...
22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
... comparing absorption features in the M3 data with those of pure water ice measured in the laboratory, the team, led by researchers from the... team to work with. "We found that the distribution of ice on the lunar surface is very patchy, which is very ...
10 September 2015
Ceres Occator crater: bright spots as you’ve never seen them before
... to the public. Widespread speculation as to why these bright spots exist meanwhile continues. They could be salt or ice deposits, volcanic eruptions, or the result of an impact that exposed newer, brighter material below Ceres’ surface. Conspiracy...
