The idea of pulling up stakes and moving to a space colony to start a new life is a compelling one. SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to build a city of a million people on Mars. Jeff Bezos wants to build free ...

When President John F. Kennedy gave his famous speech at Rice University defending the Apollo moon race in 1962, he invoked a historic figure who was famous for founding one of the first European ...

Jake Korell’s debut novel 'The Second World' envisions a newly independent Mars shaped by real space-policy debates, ...

With NASA's Artemis missions gearing up to take Americans back to the moon and eventually Mars and the recent successes of commercial space companies in reducing the cost of getting people and ...

Five hundred years is a long time, even for human civilization. That’s why it is significant and worth considering that the colonization of space, which finally appears to be on the near horizon, is a ...

Humanity’s vision of establishing a lunar base is closer to reality than ever, thanks to SpaceX’s Starship. With groundbreaking technology and ambitious plans, SpaceX aims to build the first ...

Being a space cowboy himself (*unofficially), Jeff Bezos has certain ideas about how the future of humanity might look like, especially in relation to current endeavors for space tourism and ...

Life on Earth owes its existence to photosynthesis—a process which is 2.3 billion years old. This immensely fascinating (and still not fully understood) reaction enables plants and other organisms to ...

Two space scholars have warned that astronauts may turn to cannibalism if humans do not prepare enough for the rigors of colonizing outer space. Charles Cockell of Edinburgh University described the ...

Satellite images from outer space have been repetitively used as a means to identify and track penguin colonies in vulnerable and remote areas. A scientist believes he may have discovered four new ...