The red planet, Mars, has long captured the imagination of scientists, dreamers, and space enthusiasts alike. With its stark ...

Aliens aren't terraforming Mars, but one of NASA's rovers just found something with a strange texture that might entice a ...

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden ...

Scientists discovered a massive ice sheet under Mars's Medusae Fossae, enough to cover the planet in water. This find could ...

Yep, you read that right—fungi are getting their moment among the stars. In fact, their presence is so notable that the field ...

In the case of Mars, [Casey Handmer] doesn’t have a plan to terraform the whole planet. But he does suggest we could potentially achieve significant warming of the Red Planet for $10 billion in ...

What about the possibility of interplanetary biological contamination? Is the desire to terraform worth the risk of harming indigenous life forms?

Depending on whom you talk to, terraforming could take anywhere from ... The lack of gravity may cause humans on Mars to evolve differently than on Earth. Mars has one-third the gravity of Earth ...

Terraforming Mars has already colonized many a best board games list since its release almost a decade ago but now the beloved strategy game is expanding its territory into the world of tabletop ...