Terraforming
The Rugged Desert Moss Best Equipped to Survive on Mars
For decades, we have seen Mars as a desolate landscape devoid of any signs of life. Attempt to identify ways…
Life Might Be Difficult to Find on a Single Planet But Obvious Across Many Worlds
If we could detect a clear, unambiguous biosignature on just one of the thousands of exoplanets we know of, it…
A Habitat at Ceres Could be the Gateway to the Outer Solar System
A new proposal from the inventor of the E-sail shows how we could create an Earth-like space habitat around Ceres,…
How Science Journalism Helped Me Become a Better Sci-Fi Writer
My work with Universe Today has helped fashion me into a better science fiction writer and led to the publication…
Uh oh, Mars Doesn’t Have Enough Carbon Dioxide to be Terraformed
According to a new NASA-supported study, Mars does not have enough carbon dioxide to undergo the terraforming process
Could Cyanobacteria Help to Terraform Mars?
A team of international scientists recently conducted a study that indicates that cyanobacteria can conduct photosynthesis in low-light conditions, which…
Construction Tips from a Type 2 Engineer: Collaboration with Isaac Arthur
Fraser Cain and Isaac Arthur team up again to bring you another epic collaboration. This time, it’s construction tips from…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 439: Destroy and Rebuild, Pt. 3: How Do We Terraform Earth?
We always want to talk about how we can make Mars more Earth like, but the reality is that we're…
Where Are All The Alien Robots?
As you know, I’m obsessed about the Fermi Paradox. Where are all the aliens? But an even stranger question is:…
How Do We Terraform Ceres?
It is possible that we could someday transform Ceres, the largest object in the Asteroid Belt, to make it friendly…