Although humans have explored the Moon and sent probes to Mars and Venus, terraforming any of them with today’s technology ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

Advances in synthetic biology, planetary engineering, and ultra-low-cost launch systems have dramatically altered how researchers view Mars terraforming. Once seen as an impossible sci-fi fantasy, ...

Landing on Mars once felt like a distant dream. Now, space agencies have sent rovers and landers to explore the Red Planet for decades. Scientists worldwide are thinking about how to make Mars a ...

There are substantial technical, political, and financial obstacles to starting the colonization of Mars within the next few decades. SpaceX is farther along than most toward this ambitious goal. Are ...

Sulfur crystals found inside a rock after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024. This discovery supports new research led by scientists at The University ...