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Winners were recently announced for a bizarre contest that asked contestants to figure out how humanity could ship out and colonize the entire Milky Way galaxy. It’s a problem that humanity doesn’t ...

With the recent discovery of flowing liquid water on Mars, talk has turned to what it would take to colonize Mars. But before you pack your bags, it’s worth thinking about whether we should colonize ...

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Humanity shouldn't dally in its quest to colonize Mars, SpaceX's billionaire founder and CEO Elon Musk says. "Now is the first time in the history of Earth that the window is open, where it's possible ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Laurent Palka is a microbiologist at France's ...