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 ...

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Dyson spheres (aka Dyson Swarms) are hypothetical structures where civilizations build solar power satellite collection around a star. We currently generate about 50 megawatts from space based solar ...

Are there advanced alien “supercivilizations” lurking in our galaxy? If there are, they may use massive megastructures, such as a “Dyson sphere,” to harvest solar energy directly from a star. As first ...

Dyson spheres and rings could exist in the universe, if we’re dealing with a certain type of star system. One physicist tapped into centuries of research on the three body problem of celestial ...

(CNN) — What would be the ultimate solution to the energy problems of an advanced civilization? Renowned British American physicist Freeman Dyson theorized it would be a shell made up of mirrors or ...

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 ...

A researcher from German research institute Forschungszentrum Jülich has investigated for the first time the possibility of designing a Dyson sphere utilizing photovoltaic modules. A Dyson sphere is a ...

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