Mars has become the ultimate blank canvas for human ambition, a place where science fiction promises forests under a salmon ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Is it possible that one day we could make Mars like Earth? -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

"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." ...

We’re all revved up for the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars today, but that doesn’t stop us from dreaming about a more distant future, when Mars is terraformed and turns from a red planet into ...

We’ve heard about terraforming the Moon and Mars as we attempt to colonize space, but what about Venus? Could we live here ...