The answer is sobering: a full Dyson swarm could raise the planet’s temperature by 140 degrees Kelvin, enough to boil oceans and erase all known life. A grand design for civilization-level energy.

Dr. Stuart Armstrong, a researcher at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, has done just that, forecasting how humanity could one day build a Dyson swarm around the Sun. Unlike a ...

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 ...

Dyson swarm searches are looking for a very specific form of engineering, but since we don't really know what ET might do and build, could we be missing other types of technosignatures?

A Dyson Swarm of about 10 million satellites could fulfill humanity’s energy needs. That’s a lot, but modern satellite constellations are creating precedence for such an engineering feat.

In devising this Dyson Swarm game plan, Armstrong assumed—conservatively, he thinks—only a one-tenth efficiency for rocketing material off Mercury. The other 90 percent of available energy ...

One team from the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University proposed how to make a Dyson swarm, which they deemed the most realistic design, free from the impracticalities of full spheres.

If it were a literal Dyson’s Sphere, then the star’s light would be blocked entirely, or constantly. If it were a Dyson “swarm,” the objects collecting solar energy would likely be too ...

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 ...

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 ...