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The world has seen some major scientific achievements in the last 10 years, as discoveries and developments decades in the making were finally realized. New Atlas rounds up five of the most ground-breaking, history-making milestones of the 2010s.

Astronomers go to great lengths to find the quietest, darkest corners of the night sky, but a new breed of satellites like those of SpaceX's Starlink project threaten to ruin the views in very damaging ways. And the problems don't end there.

David Mayman of Jetpack Aviation is fully funded to build a prototype of his latest crazy invention: the Speeder flying motorcycle. We caught up with Mayman for another very fun chat, and learned he's planning to fly into the backs of moving planes.

In the age of wearable computers, scientists in the laboratories of DARPA, Google, and universities around the world see contact lenses not as tools to improve our vision, but as opportunities to augment the human experience. But how? And why?

The Global Grad Show is the world’s largest annual gathering of university design graduates, showing off their most innovative projects. New Atlas was at this year’s show to offer a glimpse at the most inventive ideas from the planet’s top students.

Has life ever existed on Mars? Humankind has sent more than a dozen spacecraft to investigate, with some built to dig into the surface and others to roam its dusty terrain. The ExoMars 2020 mission will be the first to do both.

On November 14, 1969, the second manned mission to land on the Moon lifted off from Cape Kennedy. Four months after the historic Apollo 11 landing, it was the first true manned exploration mission to the lunar surface. But why return to the Moon?

As NASA scientists finalized their plans for the New Horizons mission in the mid 2000s, the US had already sent space probes to all of our neighboring planets between Mercury and Neptune. But dangling at very edge of the solar system was a dark and icy carrot named Pluto, the final item on a bucket list of planetary exploration.

Humanity is poised to take a huge leap forward, as a convergence of next-gen technologies combine to give us unprecedented power over our own biology. Here's a roadmap to the key technologies and how it's going to play out in the coming decades.