Exactly what happened to the 118 colonists who settled on Roanoke Island in the late 1500s has long remained a mystery.
The project is designed to pave the way toward a sustainable human settlement beneath the surface of the sea.
Creating a colony on Mars would not only be technologically challenging, but also biologically taxing as well.
As if visiting the Titanic wasn't risky enough, imagine living in a colony suspended in the clouds of another world.
Growing crops on the Red Planet would undoubtedly go a long way towards building a sustainable human colony.
The Dutch firm, which aimed to begin founding a human colony on Mars by 2025, has inevitably gone bust.
A record-breaking 80,000-year-old clonal colony of aspen trees in central Utah is in danger of being wiped out.
The ever-ambitious entrepreneur is aiming to construct a human colony on the Red Planet by as early as 2028.
It has been discovered that a colony of 500,000 breeding pairs has been reduced to just 60,000 within 35 years.
Children born to parents living in a colony on Mars will be the very definition of the word 'Martian'.
Scientists have discovered a huge colony of over 1.5 million rare penguins on a remote Antarctic island.
For the first time ever, scientists have had the opportunity to study a colony of these elusive insects.
A team of researchers have located a live colony of huge prehistoric molluscs in the Philippines.
Known as Valkyrie, the NASA robot could help to set up a colony ahead of the first astronauts on Mars.
The space agency has outlined its plans to see humans living on Mars within the next three decades.
The legendary Apollo 11 astronaut is aiming to see an active human colony on Mars by the year 2039.
Immense pressure being placed upon younger bees may be the key factor in colony collapse disorder.
Scientists have found the fossil remains of several dozen members of a previously unknown species.
In a peculiar experiment, a science team has produced a colony of rabbits that glow green in low light.
One of Antarctica's largest penguin colonies has been discovered through the use of satellite imagery.