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 ...

Conventional theories suggest using hardy Earth organisms like moss or lichen to make Mars habitable. However, a Polish scientist believes these methods may be impractical.

Dr Czechowski is convinced that the Oort Cloud, which lies deep beyond Neptune, holds billions of icy asteroids that can be ...

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 ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure ... no one ever said terraforming Mars would be easy.

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 ...

The Martian atmosphere is currently very thin and mostly made up of carbon dioxide. It is incapable of supporting human life.