KIC 8462852 (aka. Tabby's Star) continues to be a source of both fascination and controversy. Ever since it was first seen to be undergoing strange and sudden dips in brightness (in October of 2015) ...

Astronomers may have to think a little harder to solve the mystery of Boyajian's star. NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope spotted these dimming events. Researchers have come up with many ...

If intelligent aliens actually do live around Tabby's star, astronomers are determined to find them. The Breakthrough Listen initiative, which will spend $100 million over the next 10 years to hunt ...

LAST year the world’s curiosity flared at the idea of an alien megastructure orbiting a mysterious distant star. But that theory has just been dealt an almighty blow. In October last year the world’s ...

Three months ago, news broke that a giant "alien megastructure" could exist around a bizarre-looking star 1,500 light-years away. While the prospect of aliens was first launched by Penn State ...

Ever since it was first announced in 2015, there has been speculation as to what could account for the dimming of KIC 8462852. Credit: SentientDevelopments.com Ever since it was first announced in ...

Tabby's Star, scientifically known as KIC 8462852, has become a point of great intrigue in the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life following wild-sounding ideas that an "alien megastructure" ...

The Dyson sphere is a hypothetical artificial structure proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960, which would cover a star with a structure and directly harness its energy. However, no matter how ...

A mysterious dimming phenomenon has been frequently observed, and it is said that there is "a huge building of aliens"StarStarted dimming again. In 2015, as viewed from the earth, in the direction of ...

Astronomers have their best solution yet to the mysterious alien megastructure star Scientists have a new explanation for Tabby’s Star’s mysterious dimming. Rather than an alien megastructure, a dying ...