NASA’s online history series “Why We Explore” will continue, Friday, Oct. 29th on the NASA web portal. NASA introduced the online essay series on Oct. 1. As NASA prepares to journey to the moon, Mars ...

Cutting-edge ROVs and ocean-mapping drones helped to find and identify the long-lost wreck of the World War II-era Japanese destroyer Teruzuki, rewriting history in the process. Jesse Orrall ...

Greeks, Norsemen, and Monks -- A Northern Passage to Cathay -- Dutch and English rivalry in the Arctic -- Arctic and Antarctic : the age of strategy and exploration -- Cook and the first crossing of ...

Some basic facts about China -- Those who came by three Silk Roads -- China's first contacts with the West -- The legacy of Marco Polo -- Jesuits in China -- Prized goods from China -- Early Western ...

For over 50 years, Cornell has made astronomical contributions in the ongoing efforts to explore and understand the mysterious inner workings of Earth’s rust-colored neighbor, Mars. In honor of these ...

The story of Laika, the first dog in space, feels like the beginning of an inspirational biopic. She began as a stray in Moscow and was lovingly given the name Kudryavka(Russian for "little curly one" ...