Mars has become the ultimate blank canvas for human ambition, a place where science fiction promises forests under a salmon sky and oceans filling ancient basins. Yet the closer scientists look at the ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

It might be surprising to hear planetary scientist Nina Lanza use the word “disappointing” in the same sentence as “Mars.” After all, the Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher has dedicated her ...

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 that ...

New research suggests that the idea of transforming the Red Planet might not be so far-fetched after all. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Terraforming, the act of radically transforming a planet’s climate and environment to make it suitable for human habitation, currently belongs to the realm of science-fiction. But it’s possible, at ...