Can we really reach another solar system? This video explores how humanity might colonize Proxima Centauri B, our closest potentially habitable exoplanet, located in the Alpha Centauri system. We ...

Elon Musk’s vision to colonize Mars might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but it’s quickly becoming a reality. With his private space exploration company, SpaceX, Musk has set his ...

Qualms about the word colonize aren't new—in the earliest days of spaceflight, the State Department tried to ban the term and Carl Sagan preferred space cities.

The desire to colonize — to have unquestioned, unchallenged and automatic access to something, to any type of body, and to use it at will — is a patriarchal one. Indeed, ...

It’s important to distinguish between colonize and explore. Exploration already enjoys broad approval here in America. In June, 77% of U.S. respondents told Gallup pollsters that NASA’s budget ...

If robots can be conscious, then there may be less reason for humans to explore space in the body — but your personal consciousness could be uploaded into cosmos-colonizing robots, probably into ...

How pressing, then, is it to colonize Mars? Super Solar Flares. Over the past few years, scientists and futurists have become increasingly concerned about the possibility of super solar flares (SSF).

Forget the moon. A new startup is aiming to set up shop on an even more distant land. Mars One, a private space venture from the Netherlands, hopes to send astronauts on a one-way journey to Mars ...

Inside their complex colonies, ants take on one of several vocations: hunter, engineer, soldier, explorer, queen — and hitchhiker? When car owners filed reports of temporary ant infestations in ...

The Friday Read ‘He’s Trying to Colonize This Community’: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Take Over This Texas Town Elon Musk gave it a shot in Washington.

How long would it take for us to colonize the Red Planet? (Image credit: Janiecbros via Getty Images) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to have a city of a million people on Mars by 2050.

As for mining, "colonize" says it all: exploitation! It turns my stomach to imagine looking up at Apple or Elon raping humankind’s precious heritage. I cop to being romantic: ...