Colonization

How Do We Settle on Ceres?

How might humanity go about establishing a colony on Ceres, the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt?

4 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

6 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago