At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

It was so blatantly flawless, that scientists deemed it worthy of being called Teleios (they considered calling it Cue Ball, ...

In the 1960s, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that advanced alien civilizations could be building out enormous ...

There are tens of billions of Sun ... a Dyson sphere, could capture a large fraction of the star’s radiative output. This energy would then be beamed back to the aliens’ home planet, powering ...

This sphere would enclose ... amounts of solar energy. Dyson calculated that a shell made from a planet with the mass of Jupiter could completely enclose the sun at roughly the orbit of Earth.

This sphere would enclose ... amounts of solar energy. Dyson calculated that a shell made from a planet with the mass of Jupiter could completely enclose the sun at roughly the orbit of Earth.

The back of the Ringworld is the mask of a planet ... Orbiting the sun would give it seasons! And thousands of such objects in solar orbit would comprise… a Dyson sphere. I put the alien ...

sci-fi writers and astrophysicists have considered partial shell pieces or a patchwork surrounding a star as a realistic Dyson sphere. Similarly, a rigid ring around a star or planet, as in Larry ...

While no aliens have been found (yet!), Dr. Marchis explained that a Dyson Sphere is a hypothetical megastructure built around a star by aliens to harness energy. While exciting, infrared excess could ...

The concept of the Dyson Sphere, put up by astrophysicist Freeman Dyson in ... the first step would probably be to start mining operations on Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. Mercurial ...