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The famous line about volunteering to die and enduring pain appears in Caesar’s Gallic War, though he places it in a Gallic leader’s speech....
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The famous line about volunteering to die and enduring pain appears in Caesar’s Gallic War, though he places it in a Gallic leader’s speech....
Exploring Venus is extremely challenging. A landing probe or lander must withstand crushing pressure, with atmospheric pressure roughly 90 times Earth’s, equivalent to being...
On March 1, 1982, a Soviet probe named Venera 13 settled onto the surface of Venus and did something no spacecraft had done before:...
"Venus is a Russian planet." That is what the head of Russia's space agency declared in 2020, and the West largely laughed it off....
Everyone is fixated on Mars. But there is a closer world, and a stranger idea. The surface of Venus is hot enough to melt...
NASA's path back to Mars in the 1990s was also its strangest. Instead of firing thrusters to set the spacecraft down gently, engineers wrapped...
Alpha Centauri sits roughly 4.37 light-years from Earth, making it the closest star system to our own. In astronomical terms, it may seem like...
In the summer of 1979 the United States dropped a 77-ton space station out of the sky and could not say where it would...
The first spacecraft to land safely on Mars was Soviet, not American, and it did not survive. In December 1971 the Mars 3 lander...
Humanity has landed in the outer solar system exactly once: on Saturn's moon Titan, in January 2005, when a European probe named Huygens parachuted...
When Hubble reached orbit in 1990, it carried what was called the most perfectly polished mirror humans had ever made — and it was...