It’s the year 2400, and the people of the planet Earth are ready to branch out further into the cosmos. Now space travelers can bring April showers and spring flowers to the red planet with this ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of researchers with a variety of backgrounds and affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has taken a realistic approach to looking at the question of whether Mars could be terraformed ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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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 ...

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