For generations, science fiction has trained us to imagine the future as humanity spreading across endless new planets. But ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that were most likely built before the Late Bronze Age. These enormous structures ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Seven different stars in our galaxy may show signs of being contained within Dyson spheres, megastructures that could be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of techno-signature hunters. A highly advanced civilization could build a "sphere" (or ...

Humans have long been obsessed with building big, and as the world strives to combat climate change, megastructures may hold the key to a more sustainable future. For centuries, humans have harnessed ...