Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project will stream live telescope views of all six of the planets in marching order.

The 123-metre-tall rocket, which Elon Musk hopes to use to colonise Mars, was scheduled to ... updates and analysis in the live blog below, as well as watch a live stream of the launch on this ...

Fran Scott: Okay, so we've heard why space travel is so important, and why scientists are really interested in life on Mars. But how much ... Jazz: Yep, check live. Ed Petrie: Okay, here we ...

Mars has a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide, endless expanses of dusty landscape, and about one-third of Earth's gravity.

But rockets will only take us so far. There are more problems unique to Mars that still stand in our way. One of them is “Where would we live?” Mars is a desolate desert pretty much no matter ...