Dr. Erika Alden DeBenedictis joins the hosts Rod Pyle and Dr. Rick Jenet to talk terraforming Mars.

As a contributor to the documentary Blue Planet Red, I would like to address the criticism in Simon Ings’s review that xenon-129’s presence in the Martian atmosphere implies ancient nuclear conflict ...

Why it matters: Whenever I hear the word "terraforming," I immediately think of sci-fi novels like Larry Niven's Ringworld or games like No Man's Sky, where you can literally dig down or pile up earth ...

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Recently, NASA announced that the Mars Perseverance rover has found indications that life may have at one time existed on the Red Planet. The announcement did not mark the first time the space agency ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but there’s no one accepted answer. And according to one new paper, the chances that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Episode 172 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Rick Jenet are joined by Erika ...

While the Poconos experienced another week of 88-degree temperatures this summer — comfortable by today’s global standards — the Environmental Protection Agency quietly drafted plans to eliminate the ...

We could raise Mars’s average global temperature by tens of degrees within a few decades. SpaceX Starship combined with proposed new warming techniques, could potentially raise Mars’s temperature by ...