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

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 ...

Even with SpaceX’s ambitious plans, terraforming Mars is not something that will happen overnight. It is a long-term project that could take decades, if not centuries. The timeline depends on ...

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

A Polish scientist has proposed a radical solution to terraform Mars by smashing icy asteroids from the Kuiper Belt into the planet. This approach aims to release vast amounts of water and ...

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 ...

Martian soil contains perchlorates, harmful to humans. There have been numerous theories on how human beings might terraform Mars and render the Red Planet habitable. Some scientists have proposed ...

It’s definitely a difficult plan, but then again, no one ever said terraforming Mars would be easy.