Dan Răzvan Popoviciu new book New Worlds: Colonizing Planets, Moons and Beyond (published by Bentham Science) explores the possibilities of transforming humanity into a multi-planetary species ...

Worse, his prescription — pushing the problem to outer space — defies common sense and logic. He claims our only option lies in escaping to and colonizing other planets within the next 1,000 ...

I trust Stephen Hawking's word when it comes to black holes and quantum mechanics, but I'm more dubious when the famous cosmologist says, as he does in an upcoming BBC special, that it is urgent ...

When Humans Begin Colonizing Other Planets, Who Should Be in Charge? The biggest threat humans pose to other worlds is what we don’t know—or what we think we know, but don’t ...

NASA's recent discovery of seven new Earth-sized planets, 40 light years away, has generated more excitement in the hunt for life off our own. Many influential thinkers have turned their attention ...

The Red Planet is a freezing, faraway, uninhabitable desert. But protecting the human species from the end of life on Earth could save trillions of lives.

The more time you spend in space, the more you're exposed to space radiation. Since Limoli's findings indicate irreparable damage from long-term exposure, that 300-day trip to Mars could mean ...

In 1975, Eric Bergaust’s children’s book Colonizing the Planets predicted we’d rule the spaceways in what appear to be massive violas. In 1975, Orson Welles ...