A growing number of scientists and astronomers are looking at the very real possibility of building colonies and settlements on other planets. Once firmly in the realm of science fiction, now even ...

Earth might be our natural home in the solar system, but many scientists propose terraforming nearby planets like Mars and Venus such that they can be made habitable for humankind. Venus, which is ...

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We’ve heard about terraforming the Moon and Mars as we attempt to colonize space, but what about Venus? Could we live here ...

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But ...

Nasa’s outgoing director Jim Green has said that Mars could be terraformed using a giant magnetic shield. Dr Green had been the space agency’s planetary science division director for 12 years, during ...

A pre-print study on the Venus experiment titled "Cloud Continents: Terraforming Venus Efficiently by Means of a Floating Artificial Surface" has been accepted for publication in The Journal of the ...

If not for a geological fluke of nature, would Venus still be habitable today? And more tantalizingly, if Venus were terraformed in its present orbit would it remain temperate? Such questions are ...

Terraforming Mars and even Venus may be possible, says a four-decade veteran of NASA. In fact, the former director of the agency’s planetary science division says he is working on just such a plan ...

But scientists are already thinking of ways of transforming other planets to make them more liveable for humans. While we have discovered more than 90 worlds (large moons and planets) in our Solar ...