Venus, often called Earth’s sister because of its similar size and mass, will soon take center stage again. Within the next decade, upcoming missions from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are ...

Our neighboring planets are not exactly the most hospitable places. Humans have been talking about space colonization for quite some time, but our neighboring planets are not exactly the most ...

Scientists argue Venus could be more suitable than Mars for colonization through floating cities. The clearest sign that ...

Three Polynesian women donning grass skirts and wearing flowers on their heads dance gracefully on a lush green field. An 18th-century European man in full military garb works on a desk by the ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches landmark Mars mission in New Glenn rocket’s first big test What can happen if you let people ...

I've always thought that Venus would be a better target for settlement and colonization than Mars. It is larger and thus has more conventional gravity, and the larger mass means that the atmosphere ...

Across 36 million miles of space, the incredibly intricate instruments of Mariner II flashed their coded reports. But what had the spacecraft seen and recorded in its triumphant dash past Venus (TIME, ...

It is one thing to toy with an ambitious idea and quite another to push forward an idea in the belief that the time has come to put it into practice. The concept of space colonies has fascinated ...