To anyone infatuated with science fiction, a Dyson sphere might be the Holy Grail. As physicist Freeman Dyson postulated and popularized more than half a century ago, an advanced, energy-hungry ...

A Dyson Sphere is a hypothetical structure that an advanced civilization might build around a star to intercept all of the star’s light for its energy needs. One usually thinks of it as a spherical ...

Dyson swarms—theoretical arrangements of satellites orbiting a star to harness its energy—may seem like they could be eternal once constructed, but they are still at the mercy of gravity. A new ...

Imagine sucking up the immense energy output of the Sun by totally encapsulating it with a vast mega-structure made of solar panels—that is the Dyson Sphere. Since solar energy’s discovery almost two ...

What it’s about: Dreaming up possible outer-space habitations always involves thinking big. But no one has thought bigger than theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson, who suggested that humankind a ...

For over four years, NASA’s Kepler mission measured the bright-ness of objects within a 100 square-degree patch of sky in the direction of the constellations Cygnus and Lyrae. The program’s targets ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. That’s what many readers are suggesting in response to Ross’s ...

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