11 January 2016
Space Mining company showcase the first 3D printed object made from asteroid metals
Colonising raw materials found in space to perhaps one day provide fuel or homes for future space pioneers has ...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
... parts could be used to develop space structures and to help generate the rocket fuel needed to explore and colonise worlds beyond our own. Asteroid mining has the potential to be an enormous market revenue with estimates of the...
28 September 2016
Musk unveils ambitious plans for Mars
... punctuated with woops and cheers. Mr Musk, who founded private spaceflight company SpaceX in 2002, said his colonisation plan uses a fully reusable transportation system that would take 100 people and 80 days to get to Mars...
23 November 2016
Massive ice deposits found under the surface of Mars
... buried not far from the surface, it could become a possible resource for future space dwellers looking to colonise the planet. Although the water deposit is now frozen, if different climate conditions prevailed in the past when...
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
... hydroxide, both within and on the surface. Many have suggested that in order to make the next step to colonising another planet, we must first be able to set up home on the Moon and volatiles such as these could play...
08 August 2018
The most reusable and reliable rocket ever?
... 100 flights is another matter, as apparently SpaceX has plans to phase out the Falcon 9 to concentrate on its Mars colonising BFR system; a sort of huge interplanetary space shuttle used to ferry people to Mars that Musk unveiled plans...
