Titan has enough energy to power a colony the size of the USA

If we're going start building colonies elsewhere, then one of the essential resources we're going to need is energy. A new study says Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has it in abundance.

The White House Wants To Use Science Fiction To Settle The Solar System

Earlier this month, the White House's Office of Science and Technology assembled a strange gathering: scientists, artists, engineers, and policy-makers, for a workshop designed to imagine how humanity could settle the solar system.

Filling the pantry for the first voyages to the red planet

A green thumb and a little flair as a gourmet chef may be among the key skills for the first men and women who travel to the Red Planet later this century, according to one scientist.

Pentagon dreams of Star Trek interstellar travel

The Defense Department first proposed Star Wars. Now it wants Star Trek.