(via PBS Space Time) Imagine a world where humanity masters every planetary resource available to it—our first step on the famous Kardeshev scale of technological advancement. How distant is that step ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has largely been predicated on a specific assumption: that advanced civilizations will inevitably grow, expanding their energy consumption and ...

Could Earth be the only place in the observable universe harboring a civilization like ours? A new hypothesis challenges how we think about our place in the cosmos—not with philosophical musings, but ...

A Type 2 civilization on the Kardashev scale could control planetary and stellar energy, advanced transport, and global unity ...