Christopher Anaya is a freelance writer based in the United States. He is a college student and aspiring teacher looking to teach coming generations of students. When not preoccupied with work or ...

Mars has become the ultimate blank canvas for human ambition, a place where science fiction promises forests under a salmon sky and oceans filling ancient basins. Yet the closer scientists look at the ...

When HashiCorp announced it was changing its Terraform license in August, it set off a firestorm in the open source community, and actually represented an existential threat to startups that were ...

Terraforming a planet and building better worlds is not as easy as it seems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...

What would it mean to abandon Earth wholesale? The proposition to throw one’s hands up and forfeit our planet is a seductive one — things are looking pretty irredeemably grim. As the world continues ...

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.