Vikings who reached the Americas 500 years before Christopher Columbus – exploration was retold, centuries later, in sagas that were the stuff of epic literature rather than history books
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The space race (back) to the Moon: Artemis, moon bases a competition beyond orbit
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will prioritize a city on the moon instead of a colony on Mars
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The earthling’s guide to building a Moon base
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Why humanity needs a Lunar seed vault
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Letters from an American November 26, 2025 - The historical origin of the US Federal Thanksgiving holiday
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China, Russia may build nuclear plant on moon to power lunar station, official says
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The lunar Olympic games
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NASA launches Europa Clipper mission to investigate namesake Jupiter's moon, a potentially habitable ocean world
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Max Space reinvents expandable habitats with a 17th-century twist, launching in 2026
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The bodily indignities of the space life
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Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests
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Why not Mars
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Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture
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The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Cosmic concrete developed from space dust and astronaut blood
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Powering the lunar base
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Humans could soon live in a giant space station orbiting Ceres
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African decolonization explained
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Ethics in strategy gaming, part 2: Colonization
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The Space Declaration - Rights and responsibilities of humanity in the universe
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Why we should think twice about colonizing space
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What is a Dyson sphere?
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On the Moon, astronaut pee will be a hot commodity. Urine can be used for landing pads, gardens, and drinking water. But will there be enough to go around?
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Explorer, navigator, coloniser: Revisit Captain Cook’s legacy with the click of a mouse
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Inside Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week—and settle Mars
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There are no known commodity resources in space that could be sold on Earth
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NASA wants to grow a Moon base out of mushrooms
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Study shows Venus may have once enjoyed a temperate climate
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Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway
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Could we terraform Mars?
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The time when Zambia tried to go to Mars
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Humans will never colonize Mars
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A newly digitized map from 1587 offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization
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Would you go to Mars?
I've been thinking a lot recently about space exploration and colonization, and the big question that's been running through my head has been this: would I be willing to leave everything on Earth...
I've been thinking a lot recently about space exploration and colonization, and the big question that's been running through my head has been this: would I be willing to leave everything on Earth behind and go to Mars, even if there was a strong possibility that I would never return home?
Wondering what everyone here on Tildes thinks about that question.
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Sure, everyone wants to see Planet Earth in the rear-view mirror. But we can't achieve that until we take care of these things.
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How we could build a moon base today – Space colonization 1
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Mining water on Mars
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‘You don’t belong to my country either.’ How two Noongar boys spoke up, a world away from home.
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Bacteria that survive in dim, red light 'could help us colonise Mars'
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Will humanity fail to get past the great filter?
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