AlphaCentauri

These ‘Chipsats’ Could Help Us Find Aliens on Alpha Centauri

Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Starshot initiative wants to send an army of small probes out to Alpha Centauri — at one-fifth the speed of light, no less — to look for aliens and exoplanet habitability. (Article by Neel V. Patel) There are at least five big questions as to how they’ll actually get Read More


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Is star KIC 8462852 a Dyson Sphere?

Astronomers detected a star entombed by a blizzard of objects in October, which some claim might be the development of a huge alien structure known as a Dyson Sphere. The Kepler Space Telescope discovered unusual flickers emitted by star KIC 8462852, and the dips in light are not what one would expect from planets blocking Read More