If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable. Scientists have suggested we start with Antarctic desert moss, and ...

Dr Czechowski is convinced that the Oort Cloud, which lies deep beyond Neptune, holds billions of icy asteroids that can be employed for this aim. But getting an asteroid from the Oort Cloud to Mars ...

A TOUGH lifeform could survive the brutal conditions of Mars. That's the verdict from scientists who spent five hours blasting it with a year's worth of Martian radiation. Lichens are common on ...

Depending on whom you talk to, terraforming could take anywhere from ... The lack of gravity may cause humans on Mars to evolve differently than on Earth. Mars has one-third the gravity of Earth ...

One proposed method is to use plants and microorganisms that can survive in harsh conditions ... in overcoming the many challenges Mars presents. Terraforming Mars raises ethical and environmental ...

Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and ...

Mars’s atmosphere consists mostly of carbon dioxide, an essential gas for plant survival, and Martian soil has the essential nutrients plants need to survive. But because the availability of these ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including exposure to ionizing radiation, while maintaining a metabolically active ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars ... have even suggested lichen that can survive Mars-like conditions. But a Polish scientist says the physics of growing Earth's hardiest ...