Future Human Survival

The New Horizons spacecraft will finally reach Pluto this year. With its close encounter just a few months away there is obviously a lot of...

With over sixty moons and its complex ring system Saturn is one of the most diverse and intriguing regions of the Solar System. While a lot ...

Venus Of all the solid worlds in the Solar System, Venus has to be the worst place to settle a surface colony. The average surface tempe...

I've been thinking a lot about the resources of the outer solar-system recently. There are millions of objects out there large enough to...

The Kuiper Belt region of the solar-system, stretching way beyond the orbit of Neptune, is a dark and resource-rich region of space. It is ...

I find Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars, one of the most intriguing natural satellites in the Solar-System. And so do the world’s...

I’ve been taking another look at the Arecibo message recently. It is, so far, the only attempt by humans to send a message out into space wi...