🚀 Space
Space is the final frontier and is now being opened to everyone thanks to front runners such as NASA and now SpaceX and Elon Musk, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic.
🛰️ Starlink's space internet traffic nearly triples in 2023
With expansion to new countries, including Kenya, the Philippines, and Zambia, it has a presence in over 50 countries.
🔭 James Webb Space Telescope uncovers never-before-seen features in the Milky Way's center
The Webb telescope's advanced infrared imaging has exposed aspects of the Sagittarius C region that were previously hidden. This new perspective reshapes our understanding of star formation in the galaxy's most extreme environments.
🚀 Starship exploded, but made progress
News media focus on the explosions, providing a skewed view of the progress made during the second test flight of Starship.
☂️ An astronaut proposes a climate insurance: A space parasol
A space parasol to reduce the influx from the sun, as a plan B, in case plan A doesn't work.
🚀 Talk by the Angry Optimist: Space helps us solve climate change
Warp News Editor-in-Chief, Mathias Sundin aka The Angry Optimist, gave a talk on climate change and space, at the Insure the Climate conference and refuted the claim that we "must fix the Earth before we go to space."
👩🚀 Mars Society starts the Mars Technology Institute to develop technologies for human settlement
This initiative aims to pave the way for creating crucial technologies essential for the long-term human settlement on the Red Planet. Initial focus to be on biotechnology, addressing constraints faced on Mars.
👽 Not alone anymore? New evidence points to life on distant planet
On a planet named K2-18b, over 120 light years from Earth, a telescope has possibly detected a molecule known as DMS. Why is that important? Because on Earth, DMS is only produced by life.
🚀 Future Mars travelers Tina & Tom starts rocket manufacturing
Tina and Tom Sjögren are adventurers with their sights set on Mars. They plan to build their own rocket to get there. Now they share where the first rockets will be manufactured and the latest developments for the company. Among other things, they now have a test pad near Area 51.
☄️ Avi Loeb's deep sea expedition retrieves first interstellar material (is it alien?)
The expedition is part of a scientific research program to obtain high-quality data on UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) and interstellar objects.