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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

What would it mean to abandon Earth wholesale? The proposition to throw one’s hands up and forfeit our planet is a seductive one — things are looking pretty irredeemably grim. As the world ...

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 ...