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Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists ...
To train their model, Roth and Nowak manually annotated thousands of slices of the scroll, labeling each trace of ink or ...
Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don’t ...
British biologist Sir David Attenborough will celebrate his 99th birthday two days after the publication of his latest book, ...
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Soviet spacecraft coming back to Earth
A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos 482 probe was intended to reach Venus, however, it never got to its ...
The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn ... and human space exploration, and can’t wait for the day when astronauts once again ...
In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out before sunrise and view brilliant Venus. The planet, which is only outshone by the Sun or the Moon, will lie low in ...
The sensation of cold and howling winds are evoked in the reader’s mind by many books on Polar exploration where a landscape of blue/grey ice and bright white snow are imagined. Sometimes the ...
Robin Hanbury-Tenison’s Oxford Book of Exploration, originally published in hardback in 1993, was the very first anthology of explorers’ writings. There are, of course, a great many travel anthologies ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Adam and Teddy, the two high-schoolers at the centre of Vijay Khurana’s debut, have limited social connections. They are – as ...
That morning, you’ll be able to see Venus, Mercury, and Saturn low in the east. You won’t need a telescope or binoculars to view them, just use your eyes. That said, binoculars will provide a ...
The book also features insightful and masterfully conducted interviews with influential figures in space exploration, including the commander of U.S. Space Command, former National Aeronautics and ...