🛰 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.
🔭 New technology provides the opportunity to take pictures of Earth-like planets in other solar systems
A diamond chronograph uses infrared light to take pictures of planets in the habitable zone.
🚀 Make space your workplace: ESA is recruiting new astronauts
Many children dream about exploring space, to find new planets and to travel to distant galaxies. Movies like Interstellar and Star Wars make us long for intergalactic adventure. Now you have the chance to finally leave your office behind to become an astronaut, and make that adventure your own.
🛰️ You can now order Elon Musk's Starlink internet
Starlink is Elon Musk's space internet that will make high speed internet available all over the planet. It is now starting to roll out everywhere.
🛰 Dancing exoplanets challenge our understanding of planet formation
We explore new planets every day, called exoplanets (extrasolar planets), each one telling us something new about the place we call home.
🐘 Satellites counts elephants from space
Scientists are using satellite images to count African elephants.
🚀 A robotic dog will explore the caves of Mars using artificial intelligence
A robotic “dog” will explore the caves of our red neighbor using new technology. The robot will be able to learn about its surroundings and, while exploring, it will be able to send information to a communication module on the surface.
📀 A backup on the moon for all human knowledge
A foundation wants to create an archive of human knowledge and store it around the solar system on quartz disks that retain the information for billions of years.
🚀 An easier way to make rocket fuel on Mars
Researchers have found a more efficient way to produce methane, making it an even more attractive fuel for Mars trips.
🛰 Elon Musk delivers internet of the future with Starlink satellites
Slow connections and lagging video calls will be extinct with Elon Musks’ Starlink satellites. SpaceX's division Starlink is building a network of satellite-routers with the capacity to globalize the internet once and for all.