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, ...

The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we know it — has long belonged to the realm of science fiction. But a new study argues that it's time to take ...

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The IUCN reports that by 2050, nearly half of all species on Earth could be extinct. Coral reefs are bleaching, forests are ...

Putting humans on Mars has been a long-term project for both NASA and SpaceX. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has often said he plans to lead the way when it comes to settling on the Red Planet. However, new ...

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, As the prospect of human settlements on Mars draws closer to reality than we could have realistically imagined pre-SpaceX, so does the concept of ...

A team of researchers with a variety of backgrounds and affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has taken a realistic approach to looking at the question of whether Mars could be terraformed ...

A team of planetary scientists looks at what would be needed to make the Martian surface environment more Earth-like - and what needs to be done now if there's a hope of the Red Planet someday being ...

If humans have any hope of establishing a long-term colony on Mars, we’ll likely need to alter the planet’s atmosphere to make it more hospitable. One part of this plan would require increasing the ...