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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Terraforming is the theoretical process of transforming a planet or moon to make it habitable for humans and other Earth-like life. The concept involves altering an alien world's atmosphere, ...

Paraterraforming (or World House Design) is a subset of Terraforming where we build huge structures which may cover a large fraction of a world’s surface. A key advantage is that it is usually much ...

While humans living on Mars is the stuff of sci-fi movies for now, scientists may have figured out a major step toward colonization, by in effect creating global warming on the planet. It could be ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the idea of transforming the Red Planet might not be so far-fetched after all. The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we ...