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Mars’ Olympus Mons is three times as high as Everest, but how did it
Pack your spacesuit and get ready to tick off the must-see sights of the Red Planet
Mars once had vast oceans on its surface. Then its magnetic field weakened, its atmosphere thinned, and its water vanished. But the numbers don’t add up. For the Red Planet to have transformed from a
The Universe is a big and complex beast, and doesn’t always behave in the way we might expect. So it’s not surprising that there are many misconceptions and misunderstandings about space. Some common
Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space
Where did life on Earth begin? That sounds like a relatively straightforward question. Surely life on Earth began… well, on Earth, right? We know this planet had the right conditions for life to arise
Ten years ago, Pluto emerged from the gloom at the Solar System’s ragged edge – and a new world came in from the cold. Five billion kilometres (3 billion miles) from Earth, on 14 July 2015, NASA’s pia
