The presidential budget suggests trashing science missions in favor of colonizing Mars. A new study argues that research must precede colonization.

Pioneer Labs, a non-profit research organization, is focused on engineering microbes, specifically extremophiles, to survive ...

Terraforming would affect the entire surface of a planet, rather than just a smaller “indoor” region, and by planetary scientist Christopher McKay’s definition, the environment of a ...

Is it possible that one day we could make Mars ... That too would release gases from below the planet’s surface into ... An ...

Here’s What It Would Take To Make Mars A Liveable Landscape How possible is life on the red planet? By Sven Bilén, Penn State. Jul 17, ... That too would release gases from below the planet’s surface ...

Terraforming Mars has been something scientists and science-fiction aficionados have considered for ... or 2031, when the next Mars surface missions are planned. Tagged In Mars More from Aerospace.

Mars as Home. Depending on whom you talk to, terraforming could take anywhere from 50 years to 100 million years to complete. The surface might one day look like our own Earth.

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 terraforming, or shaping alien landscapes beyond ...

Like the natural dust of Mars, they are swept high into Mars' atmosphere, allowing delivery from the near-surface." The proposed nanoparticle warming method. This image is from the paper.