The presidential budget suggests trashing science missions in favor of colonizing Mars. A new study argues that research must ...

The idea of terraforming Mars—essentially reshaping the planet to support Earth life—has captured imaginations for decades.

Mars is a frozen shadow of its former self. Its riverbeds are dry, its air is thin and chock-full of carbon dioxide, and its soil is soaked with salts hostile to life. Yet beneath the red dust lies ...

Terraforming an entire planet is a colossal undertaking that will take lifetimes to complete. So assuming you're that ...

A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint ...

Pioneer Labs, a non-profit research organization, is focused on engineering microbes, specifically extremophiles, to survive ...

Terraforming Mars could be as easy as one, two, three, we proclaim, reclined in our cushy very-much-on-Earth armchairs.

A team of planetary scientists looks at what would be needed to make the Martian surface environment more Earth-like - and ...

If we ever want to live on Mars like Elon Musk wants, we're going to have to work out terraforming, and scientists say we're close to big changes.

Terraforming would affect the entire surface of a planet, rather than just a smaller “indoor” region, and by planetary scientist Christopher McKay’s definition, the environment of a ...

It could be possible to thicken the Red Planet's thin atmosphere, transforming or terraforming it by trapping heat on the icy planet, according to a new paper in the journal Science Advances.

The key difference is that you start on a barren rock rather than a vibrant alien ecosystem, tasked (or rather sentenced) with terraforming it so that the awful space capitalists can come and ...