The story of the “alien megastructure” star KIC 8462852 has been utterly fascinating and it looks as though even now, the mystery just got a little deeper. Discovered by Tabetha Boyajian of Yale ...

In the constellation Cygnus, roughly 1,470 light-years from Earth, sits an otherwise unremarkable star that briefly became ...

Alien-hunting telescopes have peered at the mysterious star KIC8462852 and are quickly unraveling the theory that this star could harbor an alien megastructure. The search is just the beginning of a ...

The award for strangest star in the universe just went to KIC 8462852. And while some are saying that this star could be harboring a giant structure built by an advanced alien civilization, the ...

Learn about the theories behind the unusual dimming of Tabby's Star, from alien megastructures to an orbiting companion ...

There's a prosaic explanation for at least some of the weirdness of "Tabby's star," it would appear. The bizarre long-term dimming of Tabby's star — also known as Boyajian's star, or, more formally, ...

Named by some as the ‘most mysterious star in the universe’, KIC 8462852 or Tabby’s Star has been keeping astronomers and the public hooked thanks to the theory that the star could be home to an alien ...