Mars is a strange place and any humans born there are bound to look radically different over thousands or even hundreds of ...

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 ...

A desert moss could be the key to terraforming Mars, according to a recent study published by Chinese scientists. Due to its extraordinary resilience, Syntrichia caninervis (S. caninervis), a moss ...

We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

The ground on Mars is full of nitrogen, a vital component for planet life, raising hopes that it might be more hospitable ...

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In the case of Mars, [Casey Handmer] doesn’t have a plan to terraform the whole planet. But he does suggest we could potentially achieve significant warming of the Red Planet for $10 billion in ...

Billionaire aeronaut Jared Isaacman, the NewSpace superstar set to head NASA, says he envisions millions of space sojourners ...

Earlier, Musk proposed an ambitious idea to terraform Mars by bombarding the planet’s poles with a large number of nuclear weapons. According to the SpaceX CEO, the explosions will release ...

The same greenhouse gasses that pollute the Earth would be key to warming Mars. The following options are among the methods being considered. For safety reasons, the settlers may need to leave the ...