Does China's Biggest Dam Actually Slow Down The Earth's Rotation?

Megastructures have big impacts on the world - namely the people around and the environment they affect. However, this one ...
Futurism

Scientists Identify Seven Star Systems That May Be Hosting Alien Megastructures

Astronomers have identified seven star systems in our galaxy that could potentially host a Dyson sphere — a hypothetical megastructure an alien civilization could build around a star or black hole to ...
CNET

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 facts. CNET's Eric Mack talks with the astronomers involved about what is still a very interesting ...
CNN

These 1960s megastructures pictured a utopian future

Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, starry-eyed architects set their minds to megastructures – massive, multi-purpose designs that could house communities or even entire cities. Complex and expensive to ...
Singularity Hub

Dyson Spheres: Astronomers Report Potential Candidates for Alien Megastructures—Here’s What to Make of It

There are three ways to look for evidence of alien technological civilizations. One is to look out for deliberate attempts by them to communicate their existence, for example, through radio broadcasts ...
Futurism

NASA Scientist Describes Hunt for Alien Megastructures

The truth is out there — or at least that’s what researchers at NASA and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute are hoping. While much of the SETI Institute's research involves ...