Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

The impetus for the move is a new paper in Nature Astronomy that maps out not just the technological blueprint for changing a planet but also the deep moral issues that need to be addressed before ...

We could raise Mars’s average global temperature by tens of degrees within a few decades. SpaceX Starship combined with proposed new warming techniques, could potentially raise Mars’s temperature by ...

The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we know it — has long belonged to the realm of science fiction. But a new study argues that it's time to take ...

This story originally featured on the MIT Press Reader. Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth.

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A team of planetary scientists looks at what would be needed to make the Martian surface environment more Earth-like - and what needs to be done now if there's a hope of the Red Planet someday being ...

A new study suggests plans to terraform Mars should be accelerated, building what it calls a "base camp" for further expansion into the solar system and the wider galaxy. Although opponents argue that ...

Terraforming, the act of radically transforming a planet’s climate and environment to make it suitable for human habitation, currently belongs to the realm of science-fiction. But it’s possible, at ...