🛰 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. You will also find news here about the Warp Space Program and Beyond Atlas.
👩🚀 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.
🌳 Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has decreased by a third
Deforestation in the Amazon decreased by 34 percent during the first half of the year compared to 2022. In July, the region entered a dry season with an increased risk for deforestation. Was the positive trend interrupted then?
🚀 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.
🚀 Now there is a factory in space
Varda Space Industries launched its first in-orbit manufacturing spacecraft on board a SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. The spacecraft is designed to produce pharmaceutical drugs in orbit.
🔭 Water found on a massive exoplanet by Webb telescope
Ten times the size of Jupiter and partly extremely hot. Despite this, the James Webb telescope has discovered water on the planet.
🌝 Bezos's Blue Origin gets to build second moon lander
NASA signs a $3.4 billion deal with Blue Origin to build a second moon lander. The first contract was awarded to SpaceX.
🚀 A paradigm shift behind Sweden's new astronaut
Everyone focused on Sweden getting a new astronaut, but they missed how. There's the real news, and also tells a bigger story - and Warp News can reveal how it happened.