A ring or sphere could, apparently, be stable if surrounded by the right sizes and gravities of other stars.

There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment ...

Dyson spheres of some kind may be built to harvest energy from dark matter in black holes. Exploration and Dyson black holes both give researchers more things to look for in the universe.

The universe began with a vast explosion that ... forming an array of shapes resembling spirals and spheres (known as elliptical galaxies). Often the merger was so violent that stars and gas ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist In case you forgot, Pi Day is Friday, March 14 — a celebration of one of the most important numbers in our universe: 3.14159.  Pi is the ratio ...

String theorists are betting that extra dimensions do indeed exist; in fact, the equations that describe superstring theory require a universe with ... just as most of us "spheres" today do ...