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 ...

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

In the coming decades, missions to explore Mars will determine whether the Red Planet is fit for human beings to […] ...

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 ...

But what does it mean to terraform a planet ... Water is crucial for any form of life, and Mars currently lacks accessible liquid water on its surface. While there are polar ice caps and potential ...

Depending on whom you talk to, terraforming could take anywhere from 50 years to 100 million years to complete. The surface might one ... may cause humans on Mars to evolve differently than ...

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 ...

Scientists have considered placing Mylar disks, with a diameter of 155 miles and a weight of 200,000 tons, to reflect sunlight onto Mars and heat the surface. The idea is that over many years ...

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

Terraforming is the concept of fixing problems ... 1,000 sails of this size would effectively add a square kilometer of surface to Mars’s existing cross-sectional area of 36,000,000 square ...

A Polish scientist has proposed a radical solution to terraform Mars by smashing icy asteroids ... thickening the atmosphere and raising surface pressure to levels survivable for humans.