Mars gets all the attention, but Venus might actually be a better candidate for human colonization. Instead of living on the surface, we could build floating cities in its thick atmosphere ...

Even though Venus is closer and more Earth-like, Mars had a surface we could stand on, which was an easier sell to our 20th century "space colonization" mindset. But the more we look at Venus ...

"The conditions potentially ‘attractive’ for colonization are present on Venus only at an altitude of 50 - 65 km: here the planet’s atmosphere most of all resembles that on Earth by its ...