SpaceX, in coordination with NASA, will attempt to become the first commercial aerospace company to send humans to space Wednesday afternoon PHOTO CREDITS: BEN COOPER/SPACEX/TWITTER According to CNN, SpaceX and NASA plan to launch a pair of NASA astronauts into Earth’s orbit Wednesday afternoon. This would be the first flight[Read More…]

NASA finds previously missed exoplanet that could potentially be habitable for human life MIT Technology Review/NASA According to CNN, Nasa has recently found an exoplanet that could potentially support life. This planet, called Kepler-1649c, has a similar size and temperature to that of our earth. Kepler-1649c is 1.06 times bigger[Read More…]

NASA finds previously missed exoplanet that could potentially be habitable for human life MIT Technology Review/NASA According to CNN, Nasa has recently found an exoplanet that could potentially support life. This planet, called Kepler-1649c, has a similar size and temperature to that of our earth. Kepler-1649c is 1.06 times bigger[Read More…]

Interstellar object theorized to be a piece of a planet destroyed by its home star GEMINI OBSERVATORY According to National Geographic, ’Oumuamua is an interstellar object discovered in 2017, whose shape has baffled scientists all around the world. This object was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS project at the Haleakalā[Read More…]

Google announces the debut of a braille keyboard for blind and vision-impaired Android users Photo Credits: KnowTechie  According to CNET, Google has introduced a braille keyboard to Android phones to help those who are visually impaired. This keyboard was added due to Google’s TalkBack Accessibility Service. It splits the screen[Read More…]

The Great Barrier Reef bears third mass bleaching in five years Brett Monroe Garner/Getty Images According to Science News Magazine, the Great Barrier Reef has once again been bleached. This bleaching is the third major bleaching this region has faced in five years, the last being in 2016 and 2017.[Read More…]

New advancement in water electrolysis to allow for more affordable and reliable renewable energy According to AZO Cleantech, a recent advancement in water electrolysis can be the key to renewable energy becoming more affordable and reliable. The advancement in water electrolysis was made by scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory[Read More…]

With COVID-19 forcing countries around the world to practice “social distancing,” scientists point to similar practices in the animal kingdom  Currently, social distancing is common practice in the United States and around the world to slow the spread of the Coronavirus. According to The Straits Times, countries around the world[Read More…]

University of Southern California professors believe the next step in artificial intelligence is a robot’s will to live According to Science News Magazine , artificial intelligence is on the verge of a breakthrough. Currently, robots do not feel anything and are always in a state of well being. This, according[Read More…]

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Expected to Miss Earth According to Space.com and the Smithsonian Magazine, an asteroid was found to be heading towards the earth. This asteroid, called (52768) 1998 OR2, has an estimated diameter of 1.1 to 2.5 miles or 1.8 to 4.1 kilometers. Asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 is expected[Read More…]