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This robot has applications to archaeology, space exploration, and search and rescue — with a simple elegant design inspired by a plant
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The Ingenuity helicopter, which arrived on Mars in February, may take to the skies as early as Wednesday
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Blue Origin will upgrade New Shepard rocket with the ability to simulate lunar gravity
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360 degree panorama of the Martian night sky
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After years of prep, NASA's Perseverance rover is ready to land on Mars Thursday
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Perseverance Mars rover mission overview - four days left until landing
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The Webb Telescope, NASA’s golden surfer, is almost ready, again
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In Iceland, testing the drones that could be the future of Mars exploration
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The steampunk rover concept that could help explore Venus
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Illegal freedom: Train surfing journey across Europe
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No, Mars is not a free planet, no matter what SpaceX says
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Hear audio from NASA's Perseverance rover as it travels through deep space on its way to Mars
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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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NASA launches Perseverance rover
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Spacecraft from three different countries are scheduled to launch for Mars in July, with arrival next February
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Today (29th April 2020) is the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay (Kamay)
250 years ago, Captain James Cook and his ship the HMS Endeavour landed at Kamay (Botany Bay) on the eastern coast of Australia. He was in the middle of a months-long exploration of the eastern...
250 years ago, Captain James Cook and his ship the HMS Endeavour landed at Kamay (Botany Bay) on the eastern coast of Australia. He was in the middle of a months-long exploration of the eastern coast. His crew first spotted the Australian mainland on 11th April 1770, and they left Australian waters after taking possession of the continent in the name of King George III on 22nd August.
This was not the first visitation of Australia by Europeans. That honour goes to Dutch sailor Willem Janszoon in his ship the Duyfken in 1606. Dutch & Portuguese sailors & traders continued to visit the north and west coasts for the next couple of centuries. They called the continent "New Holland".
But Cook represented the first European power to assume possession of the continent. 18 years later, the English sent their First Fleet of convict ships to the land of New South Wales.
250 years since Captain Cook arrived in Australia, his legacy remains fraught
What Australians often get wrong about our most (in)famous explorer, Captain Cook
For Indigenous people, Cook's voyage of 'discovery' was a ghostly visitation
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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover gets balanced
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Mars 2020 remains on track for July launch
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The Mars Helicopter has been attached to the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover
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In Other Waters | Launch trailer
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Divers discover an abandoned underwater strip club
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A look at the differences between the Curiosity rover and Mars 2020, which will start exploring Mars' Jezero Crater for signs of life in 2021
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NASA's Dragonfly spacecraft, resembling a large quadcopter drone, will fly through the orange clouds of Titan searching for signs of life
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Inside the Virgin Galactic spaceport sending the mega rich into space
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Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency
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Death dive to Saturn
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Science and sustainability may clash on the Moon: Balancing the mining of lunar ice between colonization and astrobiological research
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NASA chooses Saturn’s moon Titan as its next destination as part of Project DragonFly—a drone mission to explore Titan's surface over two years
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Inside Starshot, the audacious plan to shoot tiny ships to Alpha Centauri
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NASA rover on Mars detects high amounts of methane gas, hinting at possibility of life
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A short history of Presidential vacillation: Mars or the Moon
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We are going: NASA's plan to return to the Moon by 2024
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Inside NASA’s race back to Neptune’s icy moon Triton
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Will we find extraterrestrial life on ice worlds? Why Europa is the place to go for alien life.
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WFIRST faces funding crunch
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A journey to the "Disappointment Islands", a remote area of Polynesia that hasn't had a visitor in decades
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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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A three-day expedition to walk across Paris underground
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New Horizons successfully explores Ultima Thule
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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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China is about to visit uncharted territory on the moon
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Can tourism propel space exploration to new heights?
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Traveling to the Sun: Why won’t Parker Solar Probe melt?
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How the Parker Solar Probe will stay cool while travelling though the Sun's corona
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Why getting back to the moon is so hard
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Mozambique: The secret rainforest at the heart of an African volcano
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Will humanity fail to get past the great filter?
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China aims to land on dark side of moon via launch of 'Magpie Bridge' satellite
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