Is it possible to build a Dyson sphere that isn't catastrophically unstable? New research says yes, but only in one type of star system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

In 1960, British theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson published a one-page paper in the journal Science that offered perhaps the most hopeful vision ever conceived of humanity’s technological future.

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 more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several potential examples of technological activity ("technosignatures") have been ...

Side note: if we can build a structure around the sun, we won’t need local energy storage for said structure. Also, I’m with others in thinking a swarm is the way to go. Though I don’t think that ...