A new extreme sport in which you float down a sand dune on a block of dry ice cushioned by gas has been invented - only you'll have to go to Mars to t...

Nasa's incredibly long-lived Mars rover Opportunity has produced yet more amazing science - more than nine years after it was supposed to have shut do...

Your mind wanders when you're flying 220 miles above Earth in the International Space Station. From time to time it wanders all the way to Mars. ...

It's not unusual for people to find things in space that look like other things. From the Man on the Moon to the Martian mountain ...

Bad news, potential Martians. Data gathered from the Curiosity Mars rover on its journey to the Red Planet indicates that astronauts would not be a...

A blogger claims to have spotted a lizard in a photograph of Mars. While studying a picture of the Red Planet taken by the Curiosity rover, an alie...

The ageing Mars rover Opportunity has found evidence that the conditions for ancient life once existed on the Red planet. The six-wheeled robot has...

Fallen behind the news in the world of Nasa's Mars Curiosity Rover mission? Worry no longer because now you can watch the whole thing condensed dow...

After the depressing news 3D printing was being used to produce handguns, Nasa are ingeniously restoring our faith in the technology by funding printe...

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...