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You'll get an ad-free account as a thank-you. More information: Erika Alden DeBenedictis et al, The case for Mars terraforming research, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02548-0 ...

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 ...

Beyond just figuring out how to terraform Mars, we also have to figure out how to get humans there in one piece. The effects of long-term space travel are still a mystery.

For other study authors, terraforming Mars is about preserving not just humanity but life itself. Since we don't know any other planets where it exists, spreading life throughout the solar system ...

Local terraforming, for example tiling the surface of a patch of Mars or of an asteroid with warming membranes, could happen on the timescale of months. . .

Terraforming Mars has long fascinated scientists and sci-fi enthusiasts. The idea of turning the Red Planet into a new Earth seems both far-fetched and strangely within reach. But there’s one ...

In 2012, I took my 6-year-old twins to a space-exploration exhibition at Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History. A gallery highlighted Mars: solar-panel technologies, rovers in dioramas ...

Mars was once covered in rivers and oceans, a world not so different from early Earth. But time stripped it bare. Now, scientists and futurists want to flip the clock - engineering the climate ...