SciShorts: NASA Discovers 95 New Planets

On Feb 16th, NASA revealed a colony of 95 new planets. This feat was accomplished with the Kepler telescope. Scientists went through the immense amounts of data sent by the telescope; dating all the way back to 2014. Since then, there have been about 275 “candidate” signals, which implies that each of them could have […]

SciShorts: Asteroids Fly Past Earth at Close Distances

On Friday, the 9th of February, an asteroid the size of a 2-3 story building grazed past the earth. The asteroid, called 2018 CB, passed at a distance of 64,000 km from the earth’s surface – a distance lesser than one fifth the distance to the moon. This is the second time this week that […]

SciShorts: NASA Builds Mini Nuclear Reactor to Send to Mars

Many space agencies are figuring out new ways to get to Mars each day. But once humans get to Mars, they would need power to do anything at all. Spacecrafts flying to Mars can only carry a limited weight, and carrying immense amounts of fuel to power up the planet is impossible. This is why […]

SciShorts: Witnessing a Black Hole for the First Time

For the first time ever, scientists are working on unveiling the image of a black hole. This is to be done by using collective data from various telescopes that have been placed at different places on the globe. This group of telescopes is called the Event Horizon Telescope (yes, singular). To obtain an image of […]