Colonization
Learning to Live Sustainably on the Red Planet: Habitat Mars
As the only Mars analog environment in the Southern hemisphere, Habitat Marte is conducting research that will allow humans to…
Ideas for Sustainable Cities and Urban Farming… on Mars?
The annual Mars City Design Challenge is looking for new and innovative ideas for how humans could live sustainably on…
How Do We Settle on Ceres?
How might humanity go about establishing a colony on Ceres, the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt?
How Do We Settle on the Moon?
Welcome back to our series on Settling the Solar System! Today, we take a look at the closest celestial neighbor…
Most of the Solar System Should be a Protected Wilderness. One-Eighth Left for Mining and Resource Exploitation
A new study by an astrophysicist and a professor of ethics takes a look at the future of humanity in…
How Big Would a Generation Ship Need to be to Keep a Crew of 500 Alive for the Journey to Another Star?
In their latest in a series of studies concerning generation ships, the team addresses how large the ship would need…
Honey, Where’s the Space Sperm? It’s in Low-Earth Orbit, Dear
It's always wise to be prepared for a disaster, but space sperm is taking it a little too far. Having…
This Bizarre Image is a 3D Scan of a Cave Network in Spain. This Technology Could be Used to Map Out Lava Tubes on the Moon and Mars
A team that participated in the ESA's Pangaea-X program recently produced the largest 3D image of a cave system in…
Elon Musk Details His Vision for a Human Civilization on Mars
Musk has published an essay that outlines his vision for colonizing Mars, which he unveiled last year at the 67th…
How Do We Settle on Jupiter’s Moons?
Jupiter's largest moons - aka. the Galilean Moons - could one day be colonized, providing humanity with limitless resources and…