Professor Pillinger is an unlikely-looking hero. The Los Angeles Times - which clearly has fixed ideas about what a hero should look like - is perplexed by his appearance. Profile: Colin Pillinger ...

LONDON – Colin Pillinger, an ebullient space scientist who captured the popular imagination with his failed attempt to land a British probe on Mars, has died. He was 70. Pillinger's family said ...

It was the sideburns that did it. Of course he also had the brains and the enthusiasm for his subject which he expressed in the native Bristol accent he never lost. But it was his untamed mutton-chop ...

A computer generated image of the European Beagle 2 probe on Mars. Sadly something went wrong, and the probe never made contact after landing on the red planet in December 2003 Credit: Photo: PA "Why?

Colin Pillinger, a colorful British space scientist who sported thick mutton-chop whiskers and became a symbol of national pluck in masterminding a failed search for life on Mars, died Thursday in a ...

Professor Colin Pillinger, who has died aged 70, was the British scientist behind the 2003 Beagle 2 mission to investigate the existence of life on Mars; although the mission itself was a failure, he ...

Everyone is trying to get young people into science these days. "Rising numbers of people are taking maths and physics A-levels – but it is still very low," education and childcare minister Liz Truss ...

Colin Pillinger was a world-class planetary scientist, best known for being the public face of Beagle 2, the daring 2003 mission to search for life on Mars. Although the mission was ultimately ...

Colin Pillinger may be best known for Britain’s failed Beagle 2 landing on Mars, but the inspirational scientist had plenty more up his sleeve. Here are just some of his less well known achievements.

British planetary scientist Colin Pillinger, best known for his 2003 attempt to land a spacecraft on Mars, has died aged 70, his family have said. Prof Pillinger was at his home in Cambridge when he ...

Colin Pillinger, who has died aged 70 after suffering a brain haemorrhage, will be recalled as the man who tried to land Britain on Mars. What most people will not recall was that within a few months ...