If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

This releases gases from the sample ... the largest organic molecules found on Mars had been only six carbon atoms long. So Freissinet and Glavin modified the SAM procedure to search for larger ...

Its presence in sedimentary rocks formed billions of years ago offers evidence that Mars once had a dense atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide, a gas that would have warmed the planet through the ...

The ammonia could raise Mars' greenhouse gas level. The rocket engines could be able to move the asteroids 3 miles per second, for a period of ten years, before they shut down and allowed the ...

A Polish scientist has proposed a radical solution to terraform Mars by smashing icy asteroids from the Kuiper Belt into the ...

At the same time, it is a practical, controllable method for the production of O 2 from CO 2 with broad application potential -- from the exploration of Mars and oxygen supply for spacesuits to ...