Mars may have released sulfur gases that trapped heat, shaped the climate, and created conditions for ancient life.

In the face of such harsh conditions, the crazy idea of terraforming Mars is gradually taking shape in laboratories. The 'Mars Dome' project proposed by MIT envisions covering specific areas with a ...

NASA has discovered signs of life on Mars in the form of organic carbon, sulfur, rust, and phosphorous in a canyon, and new ...

Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate goal of these missions is to determine whether human beings could live there someday. This ...

Can humanity transform the barren Mars into a "second Earth" suitable for large-scale habitation within 100 years? What form will future Martian cities take?

While the early climate of Mars remains an open question, a new study suggests that its atmosphere may have been hospitable to life due to volcanic activity that emitted sulfur gases that contributed ...

Mars presents an extraordinarily hostile environment for life as we know it. With an average surface temperature of -63°C, atmospheric pressure equivalent to Earth’s at 35km altitude, and radiation ...

A team of planetary scientists looks at what would be needed to make the Martian surface environment more Earth-like - and what needs to be done now if there's a hope of the Red Planet someday being ...

A research team led by Prof. Tan Peng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of ...