PHOTO CREDITS: FEDERALLABS.ORG According to ScienceAlert.com, an asteroid caught in the gravitational wake of Mars has been observed in greater detail than ever before, and it reveals a surprising resemblance to our own Moon. This raises some interesting questions about the origins of the object. The asteroid in question, (101429)[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: CHARLOTTE OBSERVER According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, their engineers have developed an AI model that can detect the Coronavirus in a person’s cough with nearly 99% accuracy. MIT scientists analyzed more than 200,000 forced cough samples, with their AI model accurately identifying 98.5 percent of people[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: NASA According to ScienceAlert.com, NASA has finally reestablished communications with the Voyager 2 spacecraft after about eight months of silence. NASA launched Voyager 2 in 1977 to study the outer planets of our solar system and is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune to this day.[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: NASA According to FOX News, NASA announced it has discovered water on the sunlit side of the Moon. The water was discovered near the Clavius crater, one of the largest crater formations on the Moon, and also one that can be seen with the naked eye, said Paul[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: ALONGKOT SUMRITJEARPOL/GETTY  According to Macau News Agency, a five-eyed ancestor of shrimp that lived around 520 million years ago has been discovered, possibly ending a long-standing debate about the evolution of Earth’s most common species. Arthropods, which includes everything from lobsters and crabs to spiders and millipedes, make[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: INSIDER Artificially sweetened beverages, a new study has discovered, may be as bad for your heart as sugar-laden drinks. “Our study suggests artificially sweetened beverages may not be a healthy substitute for sugar drinks, and these data provide additional arguments to fuel the current debate on taxes, labeling,[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY According to LiveScience.com, a new study has found the smallest rogue planet ever recorded.  Rogue planets are planets that have been ejected from their solar system by a more massive planet and roam the galaxy untethered to any star. Most of the rogue planets[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: NASA According to ScienceAlert.com, Astronomers have detected cyclopropenylidene (C3H2) in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon, Titan. This molecule is an extremely rare hydrocarbon that has, until now, existed only on Earth in laboratories. This extremely rare molecule reacts easily with other molecules to form compounds, so it is[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: NASA According to Forbes, a new study conducted by the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a clearer picture than ever before of the most valuable asteroid ever discovered — with a projected worth of about $10,000 quadrillion.  The asteroid, called the “16 Psyche,” is about 230-370 million kilometers[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: SPACEX According to CBS News, a subtle engine problem that was responsible for the last-second abort of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket earlier this month has been resolved. If the ongoing tests go smoothly, NASA plans to press ahead with the launch of four astronauts on another Falcon[Read More…]