In June 2019, scientists discovered something strange buried 180 miles beneath the lunar surface. While the discovery does sound eerily similar to the beginning of Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, scientists have a much more scientific explanation for this particular anomaly. Instead of an alien monolith, scientists think that it is actually an estimated 4.8 quintillion pounds of metal — a deposit formed from leftover shrapnel from an asteroid impact.
“Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That’s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected ... Read even more
