Terraforming, the act of radically transforming a planet's climate and environment to make it suitable for human habitation, ...

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

Sending humans to Mars is a great promise of the 21st century - politically supported by Donald Trump and technologically by Elon Musk - but also one of the most difficult missions imaginable.

Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

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

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

Is transforming Mars into a habitable planet achievable? A team of scientists is re-examining this question with recent ...

A crewed mission to Mars would rank among the most complex and costly undertakings in human history -- and US President ...

In a new paper, a group of planetary scientists, biologists, and engineers make the case for treating Mars as the ultimate ...

Today the Martian surface is hostile to life as we know it, but as this scientific story goes, Mars may have once hosted a rich abundance of microbes. Residing in the planet’s briny underworld ...

Thirty years ago, terraforming Mars wasn’t just hard — it was impossible,” said Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs. Now, ...

A new study argues that Mars could act as a testing ground for habitat restoration, with lessons learned helping to fight ...