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 ...

A team of researchers with a variety of backgrounds and affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has taken a ...

What if we could turn Mars into a second Earth? A group of scientists is revisiting this audacious idea with new eyes, armed ...

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

Terraforming Mars might sound far-fetched, but researchers argue in a new study that we should take the idea seriously.

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 ...

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 ...

The authors also noted why colonising Mars would not be good for science. Lanza pointed out that terraforming Mars will ...

Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...

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 ...

Mars, for example, is the closest celestial body to Earth in terms of distance, but data shows its conditions are extremely hostile for life. Scientists accept that any proposal for terraforming ...