Overview

The exploration of space has always reigned supreme as one of the most elusive technological goals that modern science seeks to achieve. As advances bring about more and more complex and capable technologies, though, the tangibility of said goal increases exponentially. Although man only first achieved space flight hardly more than half a century ago, we now look at other planets in the Solar System and beyond as potentially conquerable. The colonization of Mars sits at the forefront of these goals, but what might we look to achieve upon successful conquest of the Red Planet?

Experts consider any planetary heavenly body outside of our Solar System an "exoplanet." As scientists uncover the existence of more and more exoplanets, many show promise of being potentially habitable. Where and what are these planets? Can we actually ever reach them? What do we need to accomplish before we can live outside the Solar System? Explore the pages below to find out.

Sources on this page

Johnson, Michelle. "A Spin around an Exoplanet Most like Earth." NASA, 24 July 2015, www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-spin-around-an-exoplanet-most-like-earth. Accessed 22 May 2018.