Voyage to the Planets

Essential travel advice for any aspiring astronaut planning to make the first footprints on the Red Planet: what to see, how to dress, and where to go to have the best chance of meeting the locals.

No tour of the Solar System is complete without a visit to its largest planet, but be warned: along with the grandest sights and the deepest mysteries, you’ll face also its biggest dangers.

Strap in for a spaceflight to the planetary pin-up boy, Saturn, home to the most amazing and unexpected sights in the Solar System.

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

Essential space travel advice for anyone planning a holiday to the inner Solar System to visit our fiendishly hot neighbours, Mercury and Venus.

Pluto may no longer be regarded as a planet, but there's more to see at the edge of our solar system than you may have ever imagined.