Fourteen researchers are undergoing four months of freezing darkness, all in aid of space travel

Craters from asteroid impacts may be one of the best places to look for life on Mars, a study suggests.

The sounds of Mars and Venus have been revealed for the first time by scientists.

Video-game launches can be gritty (I've seen one at Battersea Power Station as holograms of helicopters circled, and visited a former nuclear bunker under Moscow for another).

Three literary adaptations this week, a sci-fi stinker, a stagy seduction drama, and – in a bold move that pays off – Hardy's 'Tess' set in India

'Sky crane' will lower robotic probe on to Red Planet in latest attempt to uncover signs of life

Nasa is about to propose "irrational" major cuts to its exploration of other planets, especially Mars, scientists claim.

The heaviest interplanetary spacecraft ever launched is about to become one of the most dangerous man-made objects to fall from space when it crashes to the ground early in the new year.

Scientists say new views of the massive asteroid Vesta reveal it is more like a planet.

There have been 38 previous missions to Mars. To mark the latest, Matthew Bell offers 39 insights into the Red Planet

A Russian space probe aiming to land on a Mars moon was stuck circling the Earth after equipment failure, and scientists raced to fire up its engines before the whole thing came crashing down. 

It travelled at an average pace of 60cm an hour and it has arrived a year late. But the Mars rover Opportunity has finally approached its destination, the rim of the vast Endeavour crater.

It travelled at an average speed of 60cm an hour and it has arrived a year late. But the Mars rover Opportunity is finally approaching its destination, the rim of the vast Endeavour crater.