Living in Mars will require special habitats that can provide warm temperatures (and breathable air). There is evidence of water on Mars’s soil and atmosphere, and astronauts may be able to extract it ...

Credit: NASA, public domain Handmer doesn’t hope to give Mars a comfortable climate and fully breathable atmosphere in one go. Instead, the idea is first to warm Mars up significantly and ...

Now, scientists in China say a promising species of plant could convert the Red Planet's rich atmosphere of carbon dioxide into breathable ... air composed of 95 per cent CO2 (the same as on Mars ...

The oxygen in Martian air is changing ... of Gale Crater on Mars, where Curiosity landed. They have published their findings in the journal JGR-Planets. The Martian atmosphere is overwhelmingly ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Space Agency’s plan to send a ...

The simulations revealed that in the young Mars, the magnetosphere may have acted as a shield stopping the solar wind from coming too close to the planet's atmosphere thus protecting it.