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Timeline of space exploration

Starting in 1957, human (and dog) exploration of space has led to a new understanding of our place in the universe.

A study of shipwrecks since 1852 has revealed that men generally save themselves on sinking ships.

News

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor and European conqueror, had a fondness for Australia, a new exhibition reveals.

In the 1920s, Herbert Basedow collected more than 1000 surviving indigenous artefacts, 2200 negatives and 800 plants.

Three hundred years of adventures and misadventures to see the Transit of Venus helped us measure the heavens.

Legend has it that orcas helped human whalers to capture and destroy their marine victims off the coast of Eden, NSW.

On the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we look back at the six Australians aboard that fateful night.

On the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we look back at the six Australians aboard that fateful night.

What’s in a beard? Not just an individual personality, but the times and culture of the wearer.

A new exhibition of historic charts at the State Library of NSW revisits how explorers put Antarctica on the map.