What about the possibility of interplanetary biological contamination? Is the desire to terraform worth the risk of harming indigenous life forms?

A desert moss could be the key to terraforming Mars, according to a recent study published by Chinese scientists. Due to its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The answer may be to move to Mars. Here's how it could happen. Produced by Alex Kuzoian and Jessica Orwig Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Science If Earth is ever threatened by an ...

In the case of Mars, [Casey Handmer] doesn’t have a plan to terraform the whole planet. But he does suggest we could potentially achieve significant warming of the Red Planet for $10 billion in ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have made scathing comments about each other online.

One way to get to Mars faster would be, according to a new NASA hypothesis, to exploit the asteroids, hooking one and ...

What impact would living on Mars have on our bodies? Could we ever have 'Earth' on our identification? And how are the astronauts stuck on the International Space Station going? Dr Karl and special ...