Asteroid Will Be Closer Than the Moon When It Passes Earth Today At 2:28 Pm Alaska Time
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth.
NASA Airborne Mission Maps Remote, Deteriorating Glaciers
PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE – NASA's airborne expedition over Antarctica this October and November has measured the change in glaciers vital to sea level rise projections and mapped others rarely traversed by humans.
Prof Helping to Unravel Causes of Ice Age Extinctions
COLLEGE STATION, Nov. 2, 2011 — Did climate change or humans cause the extinctions of the large-bodied Ice Age mammals (commonly called megafauna) such as the woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth? Scientists have for years debated the reasons behind the Ice Age mass extinctions, which caused the loss of a third of the large mammals […]
NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth
WASHINGTON — New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought. The findings also indicate NASA has found more than 90 percent of the largest near-Earth asteroids, meeting a goal agreed to with Congress in 1998.