Putting humans on Mars has been a long-term project for both NASA and SpaceX. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has often said he plans to lead the way when it comes to settling on the Red Planet. However, new ...

This story originally featured on the MIT Press Reader. Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A visualization of what Mars might look like over time, if humans managed to terraform the planet ...

Colonizing Mars and terraforming it to be a comfortable future home for humanity is quite the challenge. How would we go ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

Terraforming an entire planet is a colossal undertaking that will take lifetimes to complete. So assuming you're that ...

Terraforming, the act of radically transforming a planet's climate and environment to make it suitable for human habitation, currently belongs to the realm of science-fiction. But it's possible, at ...