Read article: Voyager – a mission for life
Voyager – a mission for life
Mark Williamson asks what keeps scientists motivated in the 35-year-old Voyager mission
Read article: Voyager – a mission for life
Read article: How Earth’s wandering poles return home
How Earth’s wandering poles return home
Combination of two mechanisms bring poles back to original location
Read article: Earth’s magnetic shield behaves like a sieve
Earth’s magnetic shield behaves like a sieve
Cluster-mission data analysis points to a "porous" magnetopause
Read article: The hue of alien Earths
The hue of alien Earths
Researchers link the colours of exoplanets to the chances of them harbouring life
Read article: My life on Mars
My life on Mars
Ashley Dale recounts his experiences during a two-week stint at the Mars Desert Research Station, a facility in the Utah desert
Read article: Slow-cooling super Earths could lack life
Slow-cooling super Earths could lack life
Studying how the interiors of expolanet varies with time is essential to knowing if they harbour life
Read article: Geologist claims to have found plate tectonics on Mars
Geologist claims to have found plate tectonics on Mars
"Strike-strip" fault points towards large-scale movements
Read article: India set for Mars mission in 2013
India set for Mars mission in 2013
Government approves £70m orbiter to red planet
Read article: How do you hunt for planets that are outside our solar system?
How do you hunt for planets that are outside our solar system?
Zoe Leinhardt explains how astronomers are discovering alien worlds
Read article: World set for the 2012 transit of Venus
World set for the 2012 transit of Venus
Ultra-rare astronomical event begins at 2200 h UTC on 5 June and will not be seen again until 2117
