VISITORS to Colchester Castle will be able to see Mars up close when an extraordinary art installation arrives in the city. The six-metre-diameter spherical sculpture, created by artist Luke Jerram, ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

NASA's Mars rover that's exploring the planet and conducting research, including picking up samples for analysis back on Earth, found a "texture unlike anything we've seen before". The Perseverance ...

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them can help us determine if there was ever enough water on Mars to sustain ...

Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the planet's ... state-of-the-art equipment could unveil. And while Mars rocks do occasionally come to Earth as meteorites ...

Mars comes into play when it reaches ‘opposition’ with Earth on Thursday evening, meaning the planet is on the opposite ... too as it unites the majesty of art with form, structure and the ...