One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

But what does it mean to terraform a planet, and could SpaceX really create a weather system on Mars? Let’s explore this fascinating possibility. Terraforming, at its core, is the process of ...

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 ...

Terraforming exoplanets is a recurring theme in science fiction, especially regarding Mars. In many futuristic visions, it’s the first step toward galactic colonization. Kim Stanley Robinson’s ...

The Martian atmosphere is currently very thin and mostly made up of carbon dioxide. It is incapable of supporting human life.

A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable. Scientists have suggested we start with Antarctic desert moss ...

Kenichi Tachibana and Yu Sasuga’s Terra Formars manga returned from an extended hiatus, and now it’s time for another break.

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 ...

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It’s definitely a difficult plan, but then again, no one ever said terraforming Mars would be easy.