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This was the outward journey of the starship Rosetta ... The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a trove of images captured by the Rosetta probe during its journey to Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko.…

Opportunity only took a little over 11 years to go the distance Diagasm NASA celebrated a milestone in space exploration on Tuesday when the Opportunity Mars rover's odometer clicked past 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometres) – marking the first time a man-made object has completed a marathon's distance on the surface of another planet.…

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The Curiosity rover makes a detection of nitrogen compounds which provide further evidence that ancient Mars would have been a habitable world.

Als erstes Gefährt von Menschenhand hat der Mars-Rover Opportunity nun einen kompletten Marathon auf einer fremden Welt zurückgelegt. Die Sonde sollte eigentlich nur drei Monate arbeiten, hat aber nun schon mehr als elf Jahre auf dem Buckel.

Baidu's deep-learning genius says he won't bother to work against an evil AI GTC 2015 Artificial intelligence boffin Andrew Ng told engineers today that worrying about the rise of evil killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation and pollution on Mars before we've even set foot on it.…

She's been dreaming of going to space since the first time she looked into a telescope as an 8-year-old

The auroras are driven by the sun, but we don't know where the dust came from.

Former Canadian astronaut Julie Payette says the controversial one-way mission to send people to live on Mars is going nowhere.

Das Projekt Mars One hatte weltweite Aufmerksamkeit erhalten, als berichtet wurde, mehr als 200.000 Menschen hätten sich für ein One-Way-Ticket zum Mars beworben. Dabei waren es gerade einmal wenige Tausend. Die Kritik an den Plänen wächst.

Astrophysicist Joseph Roche says selection process for one-way mission is not vigorous enough, Dutch organisers are naive and project is unlikely to happenHe is not the first person to express scepticism about Mars One, a vastly ambitious private mission aiming to settle humans on Mars from 2025. But Joseph Roche is different to most critics: he’s on the shortlist to be one of the astronauts.Roche, an astrophysicist at Trinity College Dublin who was announced last month as among the 100 people in line for the mission, has written for the Guardian expressing his grave doubts about the viability of Mars One.Related: I’m on list to be a Mars One astronaut –but I won’t see the red planet | Joseph RocheAll of a sudden it changed from being a proper regional interview over several days to being a 10-minute Skype callRelated: Mars One shortlist: the top 10 hopefulsRelated: Houston, we have a lot of problems: is Mars One too good to be true? Continue reading...

The organisers’ plan is ambitious but naive and unrealistic. It’s time to admit this venture won’t work and pour our energy into more viable space missions Continue reading...

The organisers claim everything is hunky dory with their plan to send 40 people to spend the rest of their days on the red planet, but sources suggest otherwiseAge: Going since 2011, but probably best described as nascent.Appearance: Either a crazy, far-fetched story about a mission to Mars; or an actual mission to Mars. Continue reading...

100 final candidates barely screened, given points for buying merch.

We’ve had starchitects. Now we’ve got space architects. Oliver Wainwright meets the people measuring up the red planet for inflatable homes and farms made of moondust concrete

NASA: Short-circuiting arm doesn't spell DOOM NASA boffins are confident that its Mars-dwelling space tank Curiosity will return to full duty as early as next week, after its mission was temporarily scuppered by a short-circuiting arm.…

Dass der Mars einst ein viel feuchterer Planet war, machen Forscher derzeit immer klarer. Nun haben Astronomen herausgefunden, dass die Nordhalbkugel des heute Roten Planeten vor Milliarden Jahren von einem Ozean bedeckt war.

New theory suggests Red Planet was wet enough, long enough, for life to emerge NASA boffins have popped out a new paper, Strong water isotopic anomalies in the martian atmosphere: Probing current and ancient reservoirs, in which they advance a theory that Mars once had substantial oceans.…

A huge primitive ocean covered one-fifth of the red planet’s surface, making it warm, wet and ideal for alien life to gain a foothold, scientists sayA massive ancient ocean once covered nearly half of the northern hemisphere of Mars making the planet a more promising place for alien life to have gained a foothold, Nasa scientists say.The huge body of water spread over a fifth of the planet’s surface, as great a portion as the Atlantic covers the Earth, and was a mile deep in places. In total, the ocean held 20 million cubic kilometres of water, or more than is found in the Arctic Ocean, the researchers found.

Nasa engineers investigate problem that has stopped the rover’s robotic arm, with testing expected to take days