Mars is a frozen shadow of its former self. Its riverbeds are dry, its air is thin and chock-full of carbon dioxide, and its soil is soaked with salts hostile to life. Yet beneath the red dust lies ...

But once Mars cooled it became clement, thus between about 4.3 billion years to 3.5 billion years ago, it had conditions that could have supported both liquid water and life at the surface.

In that way, Zubrin thinks the fact anyone can conceptualize even theoretical ways to terraform Mars means it'll be plausible in the future. In fact, he believes that in 100 years, humans might ...

Could we ever, possibly, terraform Mars and make it more hospitable? Sure, it's possible — there's no fundamental law of physics getting in our way. But don't hold your breath.

The question of whether SpaceX could terraform Mars to create its own weather system remains open, filled with both promise and complexity. The endeavor is a testament to human ambition and the ...

It could be possible to thicken the Red Planet's thin atmosphere, transforming or terraforming it by trapping heat on the icy planet, according to a new paper in the journal Science Advances.

Could we ever, possibly, terraform Mars and make it more hospitable? Sure, it's possible — there's no fundamental law of physics getting in our way. But don't hold your breath.

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 ...

Why Mars? We can never really hope to terraform the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune) because those planets are made almost entirely of gases, so they have no land for us to live on.

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 in ...

Mars and Venus could be terraformed for humans with ‘giant shields’, Nasa director suggests. Increasing the pressure on the Red Planet would make it warmer and could rejuvenate oceans .

ASPEN, Colo. – Mars will be transformed into a shirt-sleeve, habitable world for humanity before century's end, made livable by thawing out the coldish climes of the Red Planet and altering its ...