Inventions from space

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

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

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?

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

We humans are always wondering whether we’re alone in the Universe. But what if we are one of a long line of species that were around long before our planet even existed? This intriguing idea, that li