If the polar ice caps on Mars were to melt, the water would cover the entire surface of the planet to a depth of eleven metres. That's the conclusion...
If the polar ice caps on Mars were to melt, the water would cover the entire surface of the planet to a depth of eleven metres. That's the conclusion...
Those of us who live here know the Earth's surface is teeming with life. But if an outsider dropped a probe at random and scooped up a ...
Since the very beginning of time, humankind has been obsessed with the idea of life on other planets. We have spent unimaginable sums of money trying ...
With plans to set up a permanent colony on the moon, the human race is finally realising its dreams of space colonization. But why stop at our nearest...

For the first time since the Viking missions 30 years ago, NASA is sending a probe to scratch the surface of Mars. The new spacecraft, called Phoenix...
It is almost one year since the 'New Horizons' mission left earth, bound for Pluto. The spacecraft will spend six months studying Jupiter. New Hori...
A satellite probe launched today in Kazakhstan will spend the next few years searching the skies for small, rocky planets orbiting stars in the "Goldi...
If you chanced to be among the handful of visitors wandering the lava-strewn landscape of northeastern California on July 18, 2006, you...
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approa...
The best article so far on the the "red rain" phenomenon is in New Scientist. The Observer had a decent article too. An Indian scienti...