New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...

The model Kite’s team built was unique in that it captured evolution of the Martian landscape and climate over an extremely ...

On Mars, however, cyanobacteria can ... Greenhouse technologies. Once bacteria are happily growing away under a Martian sky, they will provide nutrients needed to support luxurious crops of plants.

Researchers have successfully grown green algae in a specialized bioplastic “shelter” designed to mimic Mars. The Harvard ...

Greenhouses for the moon and Mars Team project would get key plants started ahead of explorers' arrival. By Dan Sorenson arizona daily star Jan 7, 2007 Jan 7, 2007; 1 of 5 ...

Mars has long captured humanity’s imagination, especially given the tantalizing evidence of ancient river valleys and ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

"On a warmed Mars, atmospheric pressure will further increase by a factor of 2 to 20 as adsorbed CO2 desorbs, and polar CO2 ice is volatilized on a time scale that could be as long as centuries.

At a release of 2 liters per second (0.5 gallons/second), the team calculates that Mars' greenhouse effect would double, raising its temperature by +5 Kelvin (5°C; 9°F).

What is the amount of greenhouse warming required to heat up the cold climes of Mars enough so that trees can grow on the Red Planet? New research points to how much you’ve got to jack up the carbon ...

Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” I thought of that line during a re-watch of The Martian. There’s a ...