exploration
Early Explorers’ Illustrations Inspire Uncanny Robot Paintings
In ‘Robot Life Survey,’ the design group After the Flood creates a series of Audubon-style illustrations of robots in the wild.
NASA Just Deployed a Fleet of Satellites From a Rocket Strapped to a Plane
CYGNSS will probe the depths of hurricanes with unprecedented accuracy.
Explore the Magical Liquid Landscapes of Quur
Violence is not the answer in the surreal forest of Quur.
It Took One Player 750 Hours To Explore Every Location In ‘Fallout 4’
Thomas has seen every single toilet skeleton in Bethesda's open-world Boston.
The First Probe to Visit Two Planets Launched on this Day in 1973
Mariner 10 was the first probe to visit Mercury, to use a gravitational slingshot maneuver, to hit up two planets in one mission, and to photograph Venus and Mercury up close. Not bad for a drama queen.
Dead Mars Lander Thought It Had Safely Landed Before It Crashed
Four minutes and 41 seconds into its descent sequence, the European/Russian-built lander apparently got disoriented.
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Describes Living in a Cave to Prepare for Mars
"That was as close as you could get to exploring Mars on Earth."
Seeing Earth from Space Is the Key to Saving Our Species from Itself
The Overview Effect is the motivational kick-in-the-butt we need to save humanity from extinction and journey beyond our home world.
Leonardo DiCaprio Says He Wants to Move to Mars with Elon Musk
It's not clear if the actor was truly serious about leaving our little rock behind, but a 'Revenant' reboot filmed on the barren space tundra would be pretty sweet.
I Took Jeff Mills to an Observatory Because He’s Such a Space Geek
And yep, the techno titan loved it.
Underwater Robots Are Searching for an Ancient Shipwreck in the Arctic
The disappearance of the doomed Franklin expedition has become the stuff of legend.
China Plans to Send this Bad Boy to Mars in 2020
The 2020s are shaping up to be a busy and diverse era in Martian surface exploration.