And a third option is to look for signs of large-scale engineering projects in space. A team of astronomers have taken the third approach by searching through recent astronomical survey data to ...

Delve into the transformative possibilities that a Type 2 civilization would bring to humanity's future. Based on the Kardashev Scale, a Type 2 civilization can harness the full energy of its star, a ...

Science The story behind 'alien megastructures' scientists may have found (but probably didn't) A story that went viral this week reports that astronomers finally found E.T., but those aren't the ...

Our future in space may be one of millions or even trillions of vast space station, space habitats, and megastructures. How would a space-faring civilization going about traveling around such an ...

NASA researcher Ann Marie Cody spoke to Vice about how exactly the agency and the SETI Institute is trying to find alien megastructures.