As he drew on his maps (above) and described in a 1906 book, Percival Lowell believed Mars was a dying world covered in irrigation canals. Like many early 20th-century depictions, this Danish ...

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars , with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is har ...

that Martian canals were built by an alien civilization. They also revealed some truly dramatic features: the small world boasts the largest volcanoes in the solar system, and one of the largest ...

From space colonies to imperial dreams, Donald Trump and Elon Musk offer a masterclass in misguided policy ambition.

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

And when his work got translated into English canali was translated to canals, and suddenly people assumed that he discovered the handiwork of an advanced Martian civilization. Other astronomers ...

AD 68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, begging his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to escape death by flogging.

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These guys want to go to Mars. Let them go to Mars,” says one local. “The people here want to enjoy the beach” ...

I am standing in a drizzly square where a man is eating a quiche. A girl cycles past in a red raincoat, talking quietly on ...