Our largest constructions on Earth—from giant solar farms to endless agricultural fields to cities glowing at night—could, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (cokada/iStock/Getty Images) Alien megastructures built to harvest stellar energy or alter the orbits of stars may be physically ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. It might be evidence of aliens building gigantic structures around ...

A story that went viral this week reports that astronomers finally found E.T., but those aren't the facts. CNET's Eric Mack talks with the astronomers involved about what is still a very interesting ...

The world was electrified last year when it was suggested that scientists had spotted an “alien megastructure” orbiting a distant star. Now a space boffin has suggested huge extraterrestrial ...

The science of planet-hunting has truly taken off in the 21st century, with the transit method leading the way. When a planet passes in front of its parent star, relative to our line-of-sight, some of ...

For the last two years, astronomers all over the world have been eagerly observing what is hailed as “the most mysterious star in the Universe,” a stellar object that wildly fluctuates in brightness ...

Some day in the far future, it’s possible our descendants will kick it up a notch and wrap the entire Sun in a massive solar-collecting shell known as a Dyson Sphere. It’s also possible that some ...

A recent study reveals that certain configurations of artificial spheres and rings around binary stars could be stable. The work of Colin McInnes, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

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 ...

Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, starry-eyed architects set their minds to megastructures – massive, multi-purpose designs that could house communities or even entire cities. Complex and expensive to ...