A moonwalk in the desert

Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet

IT was December 16 in Houston and it was a chilly evening, for Texas. I had a new girlfriend called Molly and I was pretty certain she was the one. We’d been seeing each other for several months, and

One of the best ways to study the Universe is to inspect actual materials from our celestial neighbours. Some naturally fall to Earth as meteorites, but these are few and far between, limited in their

Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept

THE year 1968 had been a difficult one for America. A dark cloud of despondency hung over the country, and not even the endless Florida sunshine seemed able to lift people’s spirits. If the Kennedy Sp

Space scientist Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is sure there is alien life out there – and she wants a chance to explore it