We could raise Mars’s average global temperature by tens of degrees within a few decades. SpaceX Starship combined with proposed new warming techniques, could potentially raise Mars’s temperature by ...

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

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

For years, scientists have been looking for signs of liquid water just beneath the surface of Mars. The problem, though, is that the observations from various orbiting probes have been maddeningly ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...