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

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

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.

New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared New models from recent ...

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

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 ...

"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 ...