Simon Morden - “If life is simply a question of the right environment, then yes, Mars had life”

Planetary scientist and award-winning sciencefiction writer Dr Simon Morden talks to All About Space about his obsession with Mars and his latest science-fact book on the Red Planet

20 UNIVERSE MYTHS ABUSTED

Think you know all about space? Here are 20 myths about the universe that need debunking

HOW TO BUILD A GALAXY

The making of these billion-star structures has been puzzling astronomers for decades. All About Space puts together the pieces for building a galaxy

10 SPACECRAFT THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

The past, present and future of the world’s greatest spacecraft, from the early pioneers to the modern marvels

SPACE VOLCANOES

From Venus to Mars and the moons around far-flung planets, volcanoes have helped shape the bodies of our Solar System

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE - WHY DO ASTRONAUTS EXPERIENCE MUSCLE LOSS?

Discover how sending worms into space is helping unlock ways for humans to spend longer beyond Earth

Robert Woodrow Wilson - “Dicke put the phone down and said… ‘Boys, we’ve been scooped!’”

When radiation left over from the heat of the Big Bang was discovered by astronomers Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias in 1964, it caused a revolution in cosmology. All About Space catches up with the Nobel prizewinning Wilson to uncover just how much

GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATORY

This far-sighted next-generation telescope array may help answer some of the universe's biggest mysteries

FOCUS ON - WEBB TELESCOPE TO GET BEST VIEW YET OF FAILED STARS AND ROGUE WORLDS

Not much is known about these tiny celestial bodies, which are hard to see

FOCUS ON GAMMA-RAY BURSTS MIGHT BE MUCH RARER THAN WE THOUGHT.

Simulations of black hole birth are unlocking the secrets of these bright-light phenomena

USER MANUAL - MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER (MRO)

From the fascination it has provided the field of astronomy with for centuries, to the secrets it has yielded since the first Mars mission in 1960, the Red Planet remains an elusive and esoteric point in the night sky.

INSTANT EXPERT - HOW MANY TYPES OF SPACE STATION ARE THERE?

The ISS is the largest and best-known space station, but it is not the first or the last in space

20 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE

From the size of hypergiant stars to the weird effects of space travel on the human body, prepare to have your mind blown by the awesome cosmos we live in

NAKED EYE AND BINOCULAR TARGETS

Summer skies are full of celestial wonders, particularly in Cygnus and Aquarius

MOON TOUR - ERATOSTHENES CRATER

Make the most of this well-defined asteroid impact

DEEP SKY CHALLENGE - DIVING DEEP INTO THE SUMMER SKY

Find the ghostly remains of dead stars, glittering ancient star clusters and a spectacular distant galaxy

DARK THE FORCE TEARING SPACE APART ENERGY

It's the most mystifying phenomenon in the universe, but we're hot on its trail

WOBBLY SPACE JETS MAY AFFECT ALIEN LIFE

Binary star protoplanets could form differently due to infalling material

MARS ROVER PICKS ITS OWN ROCK SAMPLES

Perseverance is analysing each sample's elemental composition in the ongoing search for ancient life

Chris Carberry 'We've never landed something like this on Mars'

All About Space catches up with Chris Carberry, cofounder of Explore Mars Inc, about plans to land humans on Mars' moon Phobos

EARTH TO THE MOON

Jump on board the Orion as we follow the route planned for the Artemis astronauts

LAUNCH FOR THE MOON

NASA's biggest mission in over 50 years will put boots back on the Moon and bring us one step closer to Mars

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft takes a big step towards its 2024 launch

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is one step closer to starting its journey to Jupiter's icy moon.

Asteroid Ryugu contains material older than the planets

Ryugu contains some of the most primitive material ever studied on Earth, dating back to just 5 million years after the formation of the Solar System according to analyses of samples retrieved by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission. Because it's so old, it's made of the same material that formed the planets. "Ryugu is one of the building blocks of Earth," Hisayoshi Yurimoto, a professor at Hokkaido University in Japan, said.

SOLVING THE SUN'S BURNING MYSTERY

Scientists have spent decades trying to figure out why the Sun's atmosphere heats to extreme temperatures

COMETS FADE NEAR SATURN'S ORBIT

It's not just about the Sun's heat

OUR SATELLITE'S STARS SHED LIGHT ON GALAXY FORMATION

Mapping of the Large Magellanic Cloud reveals starry secrets

ASTEROID IMPACT UNLIKELY UNTIL 2880

Earthlings can breathe a little easier for the next 800 years

HUBBLE SPOTS ITS MOST DISTANT STAR YET

Meet Earendel, a star whose light took 12.8 billion years to reach Earth

MOON PROFILE TITAN

Saturn's biggest moon is a harsh, uninhabitable world, yet has uncanny similarities to our home planet