Or travel there on a generational ship with a self-contained ecosystem. While the original colonists would never reach the destination, their offspring could. (View Post)

I agree. Just like setting up a base on the Moon, which is something we should have done years ago, would help us learn how to get to Mars. Still, now we have something longer term that we can focus … (View Post)

No. Awhile ago I read an article about finding a potential Earth-like planet in the Alpha Centauri system. One of the scientists involved mentioned that using ion propulsion we could get a probe ther… (View Post)

And it doesn't sound like the prerequisites for life are all that hard to come by. They've even announced evidence recently of organic compounds on the dwarf planet Ceres. (View Post)

They're not certain though whether all of them will be tidally locked. They're acknowledging that at least some of them may have some sort of rotation. As for asteroids, that would depend on the syst… (View Post)