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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mars may be the most Earth-like of the other planets in our Solar System, but it’s still an inhospitably cold desert world with a thin and unbreathable atmosphere. If humans are ever going to ...

Watch out, tardigrades: The first life form to colonize Mars may be a hardy desert moss, according to a recent study. A team of researchers recently put a desert moss called Syntrichia caninervis ...

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This story originally featured on the MIT Press Reader. Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth.

Originally released in 2016, Terraforming Mars is one of the top-rated board games of all time on BoardGameGeek. It’s a complex but competitive game where players have to choose wisely as to what ...

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We’re all revved up for the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars today, but that doesn’t stop us from dreaming about a more distant future, when Mars is terraformed and turns from a red planet into ...