Perhaps life is more common in the universe that we think.
The Earth and the Moon were long thought to be virtually identical in composition. Now we know they are not.
Titan may host primitive lifeforms and could tell us how life arose on our own planet.
An academic describes the career high of working on the most successful mission to Mars, and the little rover that made it possible.
A new trajectory means the mission to uncover core facts about the asteroid belt will happen sooner than planned.
Researchers recently discovered the hottest planet known. But which one is the coldest? And the biggest?
Musk’s know-how cannot be dismissed but there are significant challenges standing between him and his dream of colonising Mars.
Study suggests that comets and meteorites could have seeded planets beyond our own solar system with life.
Cosmic dust may have jump-started life on Earth as well as on distant planets.
Why finding molecular oxygen on comet 67P is a really big deal.
4,000 days on Mars and still going strong: one scientist’s experience of working with Opportunity.
Enormous cloud-like plumes reaching 260km above the surface of Mars have left scientists baffled. This is way beyond Mars’s normal weather, reaching into the exosphere where the atmosphere merges with…
After a 24-hour delay due to bad weather, the first test launch of the Orion spacecraft by NASA is underway with the ultimate goal of putting human beings on Mars. Weeks after the landing on a comet by…
The landing of Rosetta’s Philae on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was a triumph of engineering. Many spectacular scientific firsts will follow now, but small glitches during the landing make it more difficult…
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