Tiny crystals found just below the surface of Mars are helping scientists unravel the mystery of whether life once existed on ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable ...

Last autumn, he found that the atmosphere of Mars contains a small amount of carbon dioxide, which is necessary to plants (the basic living organisms). Without any carbon dioxide, plants cannot ...

On Earth, plants make the majority of the oxygen supply. On Mars there's a chicken-and-egg problem: the planet needs photosynthetic plants to make oxygen from carbon dioxide, but the climate must ...

Dr Czechowski is convinced that the Oort Cloud, which lies deep beyond Neptune, holds billions of icy asteroids that can be ...