A new study published as a preprint on arXiv suggests that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations might not need to surround ...

One of the challenges of searching for technosignatures (i.e., signs that intelligent life somewhere in the universe has ...

This video dives into the Dyson sphere story that exploded in 2024, when researchers flagged seven stars with unusual infrared signatures that could not be easily explained away. What makes the story ...

There has to be recognizable life out there, somewhere close enough we can find it. That's the idea behind SETI, and also the huge new alien-hunting Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope ...

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 ...

Astronomers have their best solution yet to the mysterious alien megastructure star Scientists have a new explanation for Tabby’s Star’s mysterious dimming. Rather than an alien megastructure, a dying ...