Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

A new study suggests plans to terraform Mars should be accelerated, building what it calls a "base camp" for further expansion into the solar system and the wider galaxy. Although opponents argue that ...

We could raise Mars’s average global temperature by tens of degrees within a few decades. SpaceX Starship combined with proposed new warming techniques, could potentially raise Mars’s temperature by ...

The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we know it — has long belonged to the realm of science fiction. But a new study argues that it's time to take ...

With NASA hoping to send humans to Mars in the 2030s and Elon Musk touting SpaceX's sci-fi-level plans for colonizing the Red Planet, the idea of terraforming Mars might seem a bit too far out of this ...

A team of researchers with a variety of backgrounds and affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has taken a realistic approach to looking at the question of whether Mars could be terraformed ...

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, As the prospect of human settlements on Mars draws closer to reality than we could have realistically imagined pre-SpaceX, so does the concept of ...

Science fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, in their stories. Scientists themselves have proposed ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If humans have any hope of establishing a long-term colony on Mars, we’ll likely need to alter the planet ...

Mars is one giant radioactive desert, but turning it into a lush paradise fit for human habitation has been a science-fiction trope for decades. The technology to make that happen doesn't exist, but a ...

Is transforming Mars into a habitable planet achievable? A team of scientists is re-examining this question with recent advances in planetary science and biotechnology. Their work, published in Nature ...

New research suggests that the idea of transforming the Red Planet might not be so far-fetched after all. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...