Superstructures—giant, impossible machines or buildings, popular in science fiction, more or less impossible in…

Since it was first suggested that the flickering star known as KIC 8462852 might be a Dyson Sphere, telescope-toting…

For much of its modern history, science fiction has had a particular fascination with engineering, with authors and…

A few weeks back, the humans of planet Earth worked themselves into a frenzy over the possibility that the Kepler…

My colleagues and I have begun the Glimpsing Heat from Alien Technologies (G-HAT) SETI program, which has been…

We are closer to being able to build a Dyson Sphere than we think. By enveloping the sun in a massive sphere of…

Forever-young physicist Freeman Dyson, now 83, has long been beloved by scifi writers for his extremely fucking cool…