Whether its pioneering spirit and an urge to explore or a chance to make a fortune or new life out in space, colonization of our solar system may pursue many strategies across many new worlds.

It’s also worth checking out his book 2312, which features a solar system with many terraformed and inhabitable worlds. Another good recent example is James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series.

Two astronauts stand outside a geodesic dome in an artist's conception of a lunar base. Getty. It’s time to ask ourselves the big question: Should we try to colonize our solar system, or not?

Titan is suggested as a target for colonization, because it is the only moon in the Solar System to have a dense atmosphere and is rich in carbon-bearing compounds. Robert Zubrin identified Titan as ...

Overall, the settlement concept satisfies the following generic requirements for long-term large-scale settling of the solar system: 1. 1g artificial gravity, earthlike atmosphere, earthlike radiation ...

Spacefarers Christopher Wanjek Harvard Univ., $29.95. By 20th century expectations, we are way behind schedule on colonizing the solar system. After the Apollo moon landings, some scientists and ...

Elon Musk announces ambitious solar system colonization plans. The SpaceX and Tesla founder is thinking beyond Earth. By John Wenz | Published: September 27, 2016 | Last updated on May 18, 2023.

Star Wars, I will always love you; but right now, I'm way more interested in a solar system close to home — called The Expanse — than in a galaxy far, far away, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

We haven't even sent a spacecraft to an exoplanet, and the only probes to leave our solar system were Voyager 1 and 2, which took 35 years and 41 years, respectively, to go interstellar ...