As space development progresses, plans to 'build human colonies on the Moon or Mars' are becoming more realistic, but a fundamental question is, 'Should humanity colonize space?' The academic media ...

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. The human colonization of other planets has long been a staple of science fiction. But so far it has remained just that – a futuristic ...

Most space colonization plans focus on Mars or the Moon, but both impose permanent limits. O’Neill Cylinders avoid low gravity, radiation, and hostile environments by creating controlled, Earth-like ...

Most plans for space colonization focus on Mars or the Moon. But there’s another idea that avoids their biggest problems entirely. O’Neill Cylinders are massive rotating habitats designed to create ...