Experimental research using synthetic biology and extremophile microorganisms is actively being pursued to explore the feasibility of planetary terraforming and space colonization.
The claim is that experimental research is actively being conducted on terraforming planetary bodies. Multiple peer-reviewed papers ([0], [3], [6], [10]) discuss space synthetic biology, proactive microbial inoculation protocols, and experimental simulations involving extremophiles for Mars colonization, directly supporting the claim. No papers refute it.