Latest about Mars
This is how your brain changes in space
Doctors have published a study of the impact of long-term space travel on the brain
The 10 biggest space missions, and how to follow them online
Our guide to the most interesting current and upcoming space missions, and how to keep up with them on social media.
Tiny stowaways could jeopardize future space missions
After 17 months of habitation, a mocked-up Mars craft was full of microbes.
Elon Musk's BFR spacecraft set to colonise Mars, fly anywhere on Earth in minutes
The SpaceX team gets more ambitious than ever before.
This is how we'll get to Mars
Exploring the tech that will take us to the red planet by the 2030s.
Nasa's 'Mars 2020' mission will hunt for signs of past life
The next mission that Nasa sends to Mars will use methods originally developed to find the the oldest life on Earth.
Sorry, space tourists: Mars is less habitable than we hoped
Scottish astrobiologists have determined that the surface of Mars is covered with salt minerals that kill bacteria.
Who'll be first to Mars?
At some point in the coming decades we'll put boots on Mars – but who'll make it to the red planet first?
