Over 80,000 people have registered, and paid a deposit, to express their interest in being part of a reality TV programme that aims to send a small number of people to Mars to establish the first colony there.

A team of astrobiologists has launched a Kickstarter to build a concept garden tended by robots ahead of its deployment on a - purely hypothetical - m...

It could be the economy, or the looming threat of climate change, but it appears quite a large number of people are prepared to give up the trappings ...

Nasa's $800m Mars Exploration Rovers have accidentally drawn a penis. The twin exploration vehicles Spirit and Opportunity were launched nine years...

Nasa's $800m Mars Exploration Rovers have accidentally drawn a penis. The twin exploration vehicles Spirit and Opportunity were launched nine years...

A planned private mission to Mars is facing fresh challenges, after it was revealed the craft would arrive at night - and the crew would require night...

The company behind an attempt to send human explorers on a one-way trip to Mars will announce its selection process live on the Internet - despite onl...

A private mission to send explorers to Mars has seen a "ton" of applicants - despite almost insurmountable technical and financial challenges. "We'...

A Nasa spacecraft in orbit around Mars may have found the wreckage of a Soviet lander sent to the Red Planet in 1971. The Russian Soviet Mars 3 lan...

The thin atmosphere of Mars is but a straggly reminder of what it used to be, according to Nasa scientists. In news that will give you the jitters ...

More signs of past water on Mars have been uncovered by the American space agency Nasa's Curiosity rover. Powder drilled from a Martian rock last w...

Nasa has released a new, incredibly detailed picture of a giant mountain on Mars. Mount Sharp, also known as Aeolis Mons, is located in Mars' e...

Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity has found conditions suitable for ancient life. The $2.5 billion rover found evidence in a rock sample that the key che...

An ancient alien 'mega flood' has been revealed using 3D scans of the surface of Mars. Water-carved channels deep beneath the planet's surface show...

Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover has been placed on 'standby' after attempts to complete vital repairs to its computer systems were hampered by a massive s...

The Mars rover Curiosity has been placed into 'safe mode' after its computer suffered a major glitch. Nasa says the computer has fallen prey to a "...

Mars could be hit by a comet with the power of a billion megatons in 2014, astronomers have said. The comet C/2013 A1 was discovered earlier this y...

A millionaire wants to send a married couple on an audacious manned mission to Mars by 2018. Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, has laun...

A mysterious metallic object discovered on Mars dubbed a 'robot arm' has been explained by scientists... probably. The strange feature was spotted ...

Nasa'a Mars Curiosity Rover has become the first robot to ever drill into a martian rock to collect a powdered sample from the red planet. It is be...

There's another weird thing on Mars, and Nasa really doesn't know what it is this time. You may remember the $2.5 billion Curiosity rover currently...

Space tourism has set a precedent for extra-terrestrial industries, and could be the forerunner of a much more expansive and lucrative economy to emerge outside of Earth's atmosphere, one that could really take-off (excuse the pun) once the initial infrastructure is in place.

A new photograph of Mars suggests that huge lakes of liquid water might lie underneath the Red Planet's surface. The find has raised hopes that lif...