When are we moving to mars?

H umans love conspiracy theories. From the JFK assassination, the Illuminati and the ‘deep state’, to vaccine distrust and ‘chemtrails’, the modern world is awash with beliefs in collusion and hoaxes.

Who hasn’t watched a show like Gladiators or Total Wipeout and thought: “Yeah, I could do that”? Or even: “I bet I could do better”? In my case, that thought also extended to – wait for it – astronaut

Might our universe – as vast as it is – be simply one of many? We look at the growing evidence that there’s more than one cosmos out there

One of the most important features of extrasolar planets is whether they have an atmosphere or not. For astrobiology in particular, small, rocky planets blanketed with an atmosphere offer the best hop

On 2 November 2000, a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first full-time crew of the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 1’s Bill Shepherd, Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko

When comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered in July, on a one-way interstellar journey through our Solar System, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggested it might be an alien spacecraft paying us a visit. Back in