Some climatologists argue it may be too late to reverse climate change, and it’s just a matter of time before the Earth becomes uninhabitable – if hundreds of years from now. The recent movie ...

While a warp drive almost certainly isn’t a thing that will ever exist, there’s no law of physics that says interstellar travel isn’t possible. Perhaps that is one reason why the sci-fi idea isn’t out ...

Steve Summerford is a landscape architect, urban planner and a concept illustrator working with Icarus Interstellar on Project Hyperion, a study of manned interstellar flight and colonization of other ...

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The vastness of space makes colonization a bad bargain Even if we bracket the engineering, the sheer geometry of the galaxy works against the idea of a star‑spanning civilization. The distances ...

Mickey 17 is based on Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey7, a future of space travel and interstellar colonization. The film stars Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes, an “expendable” worker. He is tasked with ...

Interstellar colonization sounds exciting until the real scale of it sinks in. This video breaks down why the first colonies between the stars would not feel like supported frontier towns, but more ...