This story originally featured on the MIT Press Reader. Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth.

Terraforming, the act of radically transforming a planet’s climate and environment to make it suitable for human habitation, currently belongs to the realm of science-fiction. But it’s possible, at ...

The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we know it — has long belonged to the realm of science fiction. But a new study argues that it's time to take ...

New research suggests that the idea of transforming the Red Planet might not be so far-fetched after all. The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we ...