NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has discovered water on the sunlit surface of the moon. The discovery has been published in the October 26 issue of Nature Astronomy. SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747 with a 2.5m telescope on board that is tuned to focus on the infrared spectrum. Hydroxy groups have been…

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performed a touch-and-go maneuver on October 20th of this year and NASA has conformed that the probe did collect the expected 60 grams of asteroid material. The spacecraft took off from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41 on September 8, 2016. On December 3, 2018, NASA confirmed that OSIRIS-REx had reached and…