terraforming

Elon Musk once suggested nuking the Martian poles to terraform the Red Planet, but NASA research shows why this would definitely not work.

A decades-long swell of wave-generating technologies is finally catching a break.

The man who discovered Proxima Centauri b says he was inspired by sci-fi to search for other worlds for humans to colonize.

We'll get there on the BFR—Big Fucking Rocket.

This video shows the basic steps it would take to make Mars habitable.

Artificial organisms may be the key to saving our planet, and colonizing others.

Musk became Stephen Colbert's fourth-ever guest.

The Pentagon is working on technology that will allow it to engineer a new organism within a day of it being found in the wild.

If humanity is ever going to expand beyond Earth, we’ll need to figure SimEarth out.

When we have the power to create synthetic organisms, do we revive the demons of the dying Earth, or do we spawn new forms of life to seed a barren Mars?

"Maybe we will colonize other worlds not with astronauts in space suits, but with bacteria," says NASA's lead engineer on the Curiosity Rover mission.

With a Gundam suit and plasma cannons, new media artist Jeremy Bailey offers people the chance to terraform the flooded UK.