Terraforming Mars has crossed from science fiction to a structured scientific research agenda, according to a peer-reviewed ...

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 ...

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, ...

Scientists think ancient Mars was quite different than it is today. While we might know it now as a barred, reddish wasteland ...