The mystery of why a distant star keeps dimming continues to baffle scientists, after a new report ruled out several "natural" explanations. The astronomical world lit up last year, after planet ...

The astronomical world lit up last year after an expert suggested he had found evidence of an "alien megastructure" orbiting a distant star. Now a Nobel prize-winning stargazer has admitted that the ...

Scientists and sci-fi writers offer their thoughts on the massive and unexplained structure spotted orbiting a distant star Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our ...

THE mystery over a distant star which is repeatedly dimming leading some researchers to claim it was surrounded by an ‘alien megastructure’ may have finally been solved. The KIC 8462852 star was first ...

Astronomers have issued an internet-wide ‘call to action’ after discovering this morning that ‘Tabby’s Star’ has once again begun to dim. The mysterious phenomenon was first detected in 2015, when a ...

An artist's illustration that shows a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian’s Star or Tabby's Star NASA/JPL-Caltech The mystery shrouding the "alien ...

The KIC 8462852 star was first spotted by online astronomers Planet Hunters in 2015, which appeared to be dipping in brightness. Astronomers struggled to explain why the star’s brightness was ...

An illustration of what those comet swarms that some have said explain the strange behaviour might look like (JPL-Caltech/NASA) The star that some say has a huge alien megastructure built around it ...

Alien-hunters have trained massive telescopes on a mysterious star which dims regularly – as if there’s something huge orbiting it. This month, it’s grown darker in its biggest ‘dimming event’ to date ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

Scientists have gone back to scanning a pulsating star from a distant galaxy in hope of finding laser emissions that could provide more information about it. The star known as ‘KIC 8462852’ or ...

An illustration of comets passing in front of what Boyajian's star. One of the theories to explain what cause the flickering (NASA/JPL-Caltech) A strange star deep in space probably doesn't have a ...