In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of ...

Bigger and bigger data centers are leading to proposals for massive electric power transmission lines, sometimes across hundreds of miles.

This ship was huge. It was like a city-sized ship. And there was hundreds of beings on board,” said Debbie Solaris, a military veteran and one of six panelists sharing their alien encounters with a ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

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Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

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Amazon communities bypassed grid failures by building solar-river hybrid power systems — delivering reliable electricity, ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michael Thomas, CEO of Cleanview, about his new report on tech companies' plans to build their own off-grid power plants to provide energy for data centers.