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

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, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If humans have any hope of establishing a long-term colony on Mars, we’ll likely need to alter the planet ...

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 ...

Establishing a base on Mars is just the beginning. The ultimate goal is to make the Red Planet habitable. This video delves into the extreme science of planetary engineering, or terraforming. We ...

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 ...

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 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. It might be surprising to hear planetary scientist Nina Lanza use the word “disappointing” in the same sentence ...

A team of planetary scientists looks at what would be needed to make the Martian surface environment more Earth-like - and what needs to be done now if there's a hope of the Red Planet someday being ...

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