Space

While tiny Mercury blisters in the roasting glare of the Sun, cross over to the dark side and you’ll find the temperature plummets over 600 degrees Celsius. Back away from the Sun to cool off and we encounter Venus, our nearest neighbour.

Got time for a 24 year vacation? Then consider a journey to our most distant planets, the ice giants Uranus and Neptune.

Take a trip to the planetary pin-up boy Saturn, and get a ringside seat to the greatest spectacle in the solar system, and a close encounter with two extraordinary moons.

Pluto is so far away from Earth that it is a mere pinprick of light in our powerful telescopes. Learn what it would take for humans to journey to the uncharted limits of our solar neighbourhood and what NASA scientists think we’ll find when we get there.

Welcome to Jupiter, a world so roomy that it could swallow every planet and moon in the solar system and still have room for more. Yet for all its bulk there is nowhere to land, just an infernal drop into a bottomless sky.

Mars is the ruby jewel in our night sky and arguably the hottest travel destination in the Solar System. Here, on the fourth rock from the Sun, is our best chance to step into the rest of the Universe and the most likely place we know to encounter the alien life-forms we might share it with.

In National Geographic Channel’s “Mars: Making the New Earth”, award winning writer/producer Mark Davis and legendary Mars animator Dan Maas collaborate with McKay on the first in depth visualisation of what it would take to turn a cold, dead planet into a living world.

Teams of astronomers around the world are racing to find for the first time ever the exact location of the ultimate prize in space exploration a living world, just like our own planet Earth.

With technology advancing faster than ever, and more and more discoveries being made every day, is the day we contact extraterrestrial life almost here?

The biggest question of our time. Are we alone? This experience takes you to alien worlds and distant places in time and space,

Elon Musk will discuss the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars.