Being the first person on Mars would be an incredible achievement; what challenges and discoveries await?

Forget “one giant step for man”, the first person to step on Mars could be a woman – Alyssa Carson. The 18-year-old, who is one of the world’s youngest astronauts-in-training, speaks to ...

A secret mission. A horrifying discovery. The countdown to terror has begun! In 2003 billionaire astronaut Eli Cologne began his journey through space to become the ...

One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's "stupid" to plan manned missions to Mars. Bill Anders, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 8, the first manned spaceflight to ...

In the latest instalment of our Future Chronicles column, which explores an imagined history of inventions yet to come, Rowan Hooper reveals how brain-computer interface let us travel to Mars via robo ...

In the 19th century, the idea of men on Mars took off after astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed straight lines on Mars, which he called canali. This means channels, but it was wrongly ...

When it comes to putting humans on Mars, which he sees as the first step ... the first American woman on to the Moon—and the first person of colour, too—is an initiative tainted with the ...