This video dives into the Dyson sphere story that exploded in 2024, when researchers flagged seven stars with unusual ...

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We can probably put our hopes of meeting aliens on hold just a little bit longer. A team of researchers studying "Tabby's star," a stellar object whose mysterious dips in brightness have puzzled ...

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A rendering of a potential Dyson sphere, named after Freeman A. Dyson. As proposed by the physicist and astromomer decades ago, they would collect solar energy on a solar system wide scale for highly ...

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

There's a prosaic explanation for at least some of the weirdness of "Tabby's star," it would appear. The bizarre long-term dimming of Tabby's star — also known as Boyajian's star, or, more formally, ...

If an alien megastructure indeed encircles a star known as KIC 8462852, it's 1,500 years old and no one may be home anymore. Q: What’s the deal with that star that was giving off weird light signals?