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 ...

The science of planet-hunting has truly taken off in the 21st century, with the transit method leading the way. When a planet passes in front of its parent star, relative to our line-of-sight, some of ...

A European Space Agency catalog of the Milky Way's billions of stars could be hiding evidence of highly advanced alien civilizations with serious building skills. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor ...

So, you want to know about Stellaris megastructures? These gargantuan feats of engineering were first introduced in the first Stellaris DLC - Utopia - and range from habitats and gateways, to more ...

The Tripolye are among Europe’s most intriguing early cultures. From about 3600 B.C. to 4100 B.C., they lived in settlements of up to 10,000 inhabitants in areas that are now Ukraine, Moldova and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Here on Earth, the amount of energy available to us is determined by ...

PLYMOUTH, Mich., Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The next technological leap for galactic empires is here. Today, Stardock officially released Galactic Civilizations IV: Megastructures, bringing new ...

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 ...

The excavation of a Stone Age community center in Ukraine is helping explain why large groups of tens of thousands of people flourished and then fell more than 5,000 years ago. The "megastructure" ...

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