exploration

Who Reached the North Pole First? How the Battle Over That Question Created a More Cynical World

By John V. H. Dippel / History News Network

China to Probe the Moon's North and South Poles in 2017

By Charlie Campbell / Beijing

Meet the Place Hackers

By Rachel Lowry

What Hiram Bingham Got Wrong About Machu Picchu

By Lily Rothman
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Here’s What the Most Jaw-Dropping Game of 2015 Looks Like Up Close

The procedurally generated space exploration game No Man's Sky looks amazing

By Matt Vella

Asteroid in a Bag? Bag it, Says MIT Space Scientist

NASA's next great manned mission has always sounded like something of a fever dream. There may be a better way to do the same work.

By Michael D. Lemonick

Living on Mars? Not That Simple

A new analysis of Mars One's plans to colonize the Red Planet finds that the explorers would begin dying within 68 days of touching down

By Jeffrey Kluger

The Big Bang Did NOT Occur 50 Years Ago

Human beings are a very small part of a very big universe. Figuring some of that universe out is to our credit—but let's not overstate the things we've accomplished.

By Jeffrey Kluger

The Reason We Can’t Find the Missing Jet

We can see countless millions of miles into the blackness of space, but a 3-mile depth in the ocean is testing the very limits of our technology because most of it just doesn’t work underwater

By Charlie Campbell
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