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

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

Conventional theories suggest using hardy Earth organisms like moss or lichen to make Mars habitable. However, a Polish scientist believes these methods may be impractical.

“We should use Kuiper Belt (KB) bodies for terraforming ... on a multi-decadal journey to Mars, where their impact on the surface could eventually atmospheric conditions more suitable ...

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

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.

Not all of it. Earlier this year, US president Donald Trump promised Congress that he would “lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond”. He’s wrong, ...

Las Arenitas is an artificial oasis that recycles used water from the border city of Mexicali to regenerate ecosystems in the ...

Mars’s surface is covered with toxic perchlorates, making the planet’s “soil” hard to farm. Proponents of terraforming think that the emerging field of synthetic biology – the use of ...

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