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, we ...

The Timeline for Terraforming Mars. Even with SpaceX’s ambitious plans, terraforming Mars is not something that will happen overnight. It is a long-term project that could take decades, ...

There are good reasons not to want Elon Musk to terraform Mars, but disdain for Musk doesn't need to become disdain for the dream of a multiplanetary humanity. On Monday, Discover Magazine ...

Mars as Home Depending on whom you talk to, terraforming could take anywhere from 50 years to 100 million years to complete. The surface might one day look like our own Earth.

It might actually be possible to terraform Mars. If reading that last sentence gave you pause, you aren’t alone. Sure, the idea of terraforming the Red Planet is exciting, but it’s also always ...

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 ...

In the absence of evidence of life, a not-so-new idea is gaining ground; if we can’t find life on Mars, maybe we could bring life to Mars. Not only that, but maybe we could change the nature of ...

With NASA hoping to send humans to Mars in the 2030s and Elon Musk touting SpaceX’s sci-fi-level plans for colonizing the Red Planet, the idea of terraforming Mars might seem a bit too far out ...

Kaku goes on to set up a timeline for terraforming Mars. He predicts the first astronauts will arrive "mid-century," the first human colonies will be built "later in the 21st century," and ...