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 ...

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, 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 ...

Putting humans on Mars has been a long-term project for both NASA and SpaceX. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has often said he plans to lead the way when it comes to settling on the Red Planet. However, new ...

Mars is one giant radioactive desert, but turning it into a lush paradise fit for human habitation has been a science-fiction trope for decades. The technology to make that happen doesn't exist, but a ...

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 ...

One of the classic tropes of science fiction is terraforming Mars: warming up our cold neighbor so it could support human civilization. The idea might not be so far-fetched, research published today ...

The concept of terraforming Mars envisions transforming the Red Planet into a habitable world, but the scientific and ...

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Watch out, tardigrades: The first life form to colonize Mars may be a hardy desert moss, according to a recent study. A team of researchers recently put a desert moss called Syntrichia caninervis ...

Terraforming Mars has already colonized many a best board games list since its release almost a decade ago but now the beloved strategy game is expanding its territory into the world of tabletop ...

"You wouldn't need extra effort to look for these technosignatures, if your telescope is already characterizing the planet for other reasons — and it would be jaw-droppingly amazing to find them." ...