Just recently, Lockheed Martin revealed its plans for building a lunar habitat prototype as part of the NextSTEP. Called Deep Space Gateway, this cislunar habitat will reportedly be made out repurposed space shuttle parts. Lockheed is among the first to present its Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership or NextSTEP. Commissioned by NASA, this involves six companies which are … [Read more...]

Since the CRISPR gene editing technique was developed several years ago, scientists have continually found new and fascinating ways to apply this technology. The potential for genetic engineering and medicine seem more limitless every day. Well now, scientists inserted the code for a GIF, a type of digital video, into the DNA of a living organism for the first time, and when they retrieved it, the … [Read more...]

Climbing stairs may soon become easier thanks to a system of energy-recycling stairs that should assist people by absorbing and then returning them their own energy. This is all according to a new study released in the PLOS One. Yun Seong Song, part of the Missouri University of Science and Technology, conducted this new research on the benefits of assistive stairs. Assistive Stairs to … [Read more...]

According to the latest research on life sustainability on Mars, the Martian soil is rich in perchlorates which might be deadly for any bacteria. This comes as a contradiction to prior experiments which deemed the chemical compound as microbe-friendly. While the compound is toxic to humans, it was believed that it does not affect microbial life and scientists were optimistic about the odds of … [Read more...]

According to a recently released study, NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover should now be smart enough to choose exploration targets on its own thanks to the installation of the AEGIS. This is the Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science technology, which was beamed to the rover back in October 2015. The software update is based on artificial intelligence and should help the spacecraft … [Read more...]

NASA recently released a statement in which it announced that researchers are hard at work in trying to fix some of the problems that Martian explorers will most likely have to face. One of them, the dust problem, could reportedly be solved with some help from an electrostatic precipitator. Research and experiments on the matter are being carried out by scientists part of NASA’s Kennedy Space … [Read more...]

The ELT or the Extremely Large Telescope is now under construction as work on what is to be the world’s largest telescope began on May 26 in Chile. ESO or the European Southern Observatory is expecting it to be ready and fully functional in 2024. ELT is set to be the biggest optical and infrared in the world. It is being built in Chile, on top of the 3,046-metre Cerro Armazones mountain … [Read more...]

The Svalbard Seed Vault, also commonly called the Doomsday Vault is once again safe after almost passing through its own disaster. According to reports, the seed bank was quite close to being threatened by flooding waters due to the melting permafrost. The Doomsday Vault Had a Closer Than Wished for Brush with Water The Doomsday Vault is located on the island of Spitsbergen, in Norway, some 620 … [Read more...]

  Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) managed to complete humanity's 200th spacewalk. They were able to do so although there were complications with the historic event from the very beginning. It began late, got cut short, and the two astronauts involved even had to share an umbilical cord to return to the station. Humanity's 200th Spacewalk Goes Off With a Bit of … [Read more...]

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers just developed a new technology which can turn almost anything into a touchpad. This can be obtained with some help from conductive spray paint and just about any surface. Chris Harrison, a lab assistant part of the University’s Human – Computer Interaction Institute, offered some details on this new project, which he and his team call … [Read more...]