Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures? Reading time 3 minutes Assuming aliens do physics like us but are ...

In the 1960s, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that advanced alien civilizations could be building enormous megastructures around a star to harness its energy. Such a move would allow a civilization ...

What if aliens were building a massive power plant?Last time, I talked about the "Kardashev scale," which classifies the ...

A TOP UFO scientist has weighed in on a strange metal orb that was unearthed. Boffins released X-ray images of the mind-boggling sphere, after witnesses claimed to have seen it flying over the town of ...

A recent study reveals that certain configurations of artificial spheres and rings around binary stars could be stable. The work of Colin McInnes, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dyson sphere was first proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960. Named after physicist Freeman Dyson, the idea hinges on an ...

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ALIENS: where are you? Our hopes of finding intelligent companionship seem to be constantly receding. Mars and Venus are not the richly populated realms we once guessed at. The icy seas of the outer ...