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 ...

The process of making Mars more like Earth is called "terraforming." Over the past 50 years, many proposals have been made. In a new study, a team of scientists ... came up with a way to warm ...

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Terraforming exoplanets is a recurring theme in science fiction, especially regarding Mars. In many futuristic visions, it’s the first step toward galactic colonization. Kim Stanley Robinson’s ...

The same greenhouse gasses that pollute the Earth would be key to warming Mars ... could be shipped to Mars or made from Martian elements is being debated. Scientists have thought about attaching ...

In a paper published this month in the journal Science ... Mars’ atmosphere thinned over time, the carbon dioxide transformed into rock form. The carbon dioxide had been warming the planet up ...