Terraforming Mars is one of the biggest ideas humanity has ever seriously considered, but it is not a quick fix or a simple science experiment. To make the red planet livable, we would need air, water ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

The purpose of the workshop, titled “Green Mars”, was to develop an “up-to-date perspective on the feasibility of terraforming Mars”. LIGHTHAVEN, ONE kilometre down Telegraph Avenue from the campus of ...

Mars is a frozen shadow of its former self. Its riverbeds are dry, its air is thin and chock-full of carbon dioxide, and its soil is soaked with salts hostile to life. Yet beneath the red dust lies ...

Why is so much money ploughed into making other planets habitable, when we cannot even look after our own? Earth’s ecosystems are in crisis mode. Species are vanishing at rates that should make ...