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

Dr Czechowski is convinced that the Oort Cloud, which lies deep beyond Neptune, holds billions of icy asteroids that can be ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable ...

The Martian atmosphere is currently very thin and mostly made up of carbon dioxide. It is incapable of supporting human life.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins ...

The object is classified as a minor planet, like thousands of other asteroids and comets in our ... EB173 is part of the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy debris orbiting the sun, located out beyond ...

Pounding icy objects on Mars could make it survivable for humans, says a new study. Scientist Leszek Czechowski of the Polish ...

It may also change the way scientists think about the formation of systems asteroids in the Kuiper belt. The system, which has already been named 148780 Altjira, allows scientists to improve their own ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

Bad weather plagued ULA's launch attempt Amazon throughout a two-hour flight window that opened at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT).

In his paper, "Energy problems of terraforming Mars," Dr. Czechowski suggests smashing the planet with asteroids from the Kuiper Belt or the dense, but currently theoretical, Oort Cloud.