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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Alien-hunters trained massive telescopes on a mysterious star last year after it started ‘dimming’ – hinting that something was passing in front of it. Some people were sure it was the sign of an ...

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 ...

A new study published as a preprint on arXiv suggests that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations might not need to surround stars with giant structures to collect energy. Instead, they could extract ...