A team of planetary scientists thinks they know how to start warming Mars: scatter billions of tiny engineered particles into its thin atmosphere and let the planet’s own winds do the rest. Their peer ...

Reading the "Mars Trilogy" by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the red planet ...

Whenever humans arrive on Mars, they're going to find it a difficult place to exist. Mars is cold, with an average surface ...

It suggests building special greenhouses, big light-reflecting mirrors and heat-trapping aerosols.