The Latest Breaking News from Mars

NASA's latest rover to Mars got a close look at rocks that came into contact with water within an ancient crater.

Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts left our celestial neighbour. Since then, hundreds of astronauts have been launched into space but mainly to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. None has, in fact, ventured more…

Nasa insists that people will soon be living on the moon 'for durations' and be conducting scientific research on the lunar surface with their own 'habitats' and 'rovers on the ground'

Humans could be living on the Moon during this decade, according to a NASA official. But Mars is the ultimate goal.

A new type of inflatable heat shield for space travel could be our best shot at landing humans on Mars because it can handle far more cargo.

Last week’s Nasa launch is the first in a flurry of successors to the Apollo programme, reopening the debate on the value of sending humans into space

Howard Hu, who leads NASA's Orion lunar spacecraft programme, revealed that people will be living on the Moon's surface and carrying out science there "in this decade"

This week’s new entertainment releases include an live posthumous album from Tom Petty, the criminal profile spinoff series “Criminal Minds: Evolution,” a documentary about the plucky Mars Rover Opportunity and a TV series that focuses on the backstage melodrama at the Chippendale’s male strip clubs

Most of the worlds of our Solar System are pockmarked with impact craters. These bear testament to the violence of the early days of the Sun, when asteroids, comets and entire planets routinely collided with and annihilated each other.