O’Neill cylinders are often imagined as giant rotating megastructures built to house humanity in space. But this episode explores the deeper challenge behind them: not how to make them spin, but how ...

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 ...

Representation of a Dyson swarm. Credit: Віщун / Wikimedia Commons. Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the “Dyson sphere” has been the holy grail of ...

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A vast orbital megastructure circles Earth in a vision of planet-scale engineering, as this documentary explores bold sci-fi solutions to real global threats. It covers proposals like cooling super ...

What appears from space as a vast, geometric imprint etched into the landscape of northeastern Brazil long puzzled scientists. Spanning an area comparable to an entire European country, these ancient ...

A scientist at the University of Glasgow has delved into the possible existence of massive hypothetical energy-harvesting structures called Dyson spheres. In a new study, they showed that both stellar ...

AI is expected to eliminate many repetitive, entry-level tasks, but that may allow engineering students trained on the latest tools to start in more senior positions. AI is a force multiplier. It can ...

Indie game developer and publisher System Era Softworks has finally released the latest DLC for Astronner, as Megatech is available right now. Originally teased back in April, this adds several new ...

Astroneer has been doing the rounds since 2016 and is doing very well for itself, still holding a Very Positive rating on Steam and still being supported and releasing new DLC. In that time, it has ...

Astroneer's Megatech DLC has just arrived, and in case the name didn't give it away, it's all about building colossal megastructures. The expansion brings a new level of scale to one of the best ...