A team of astronomers combed through a collection of odd stars that are candidates for Dyson spheres — artificial constructs designed by aliens to leech energy from stars. Instead, the scientists ...

There are three ways to look for evidence of alien technological civilizations. One is to look out for deliberate attempts by them to communicate their existence, for example, through radio broadcasts ...

A team of astronomers has made an intriguing discovery by searching through recent astronomical survey data, identifying seven candidates for alien megastructures, specifically Dyson spheres, that ...

Researchers found seven stars in our galaxy that might host alien megastructures called Dyson spheres. But these stars' strange behavior could also be explained by other phenomena, like clouds of dust ...

In the classic 1937 sci-fi novel "Star Maker," author Olaf Stapledon imagined a massive machine that could encompass an entire star, capturing its energy and harnessing it to provide near unlimited ...

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 ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived in the Solar System as a fragment of deep time, a frozen shard that formed long before Earth existed and is now briefly sharing our neighborhood. Its passage has ...

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Last month, the online world went into a tizzy over the possibility of intelligent alien life lingering near a distant star in our galaxy. The star in question is called KIC 8462852, and the reason it ...