15:31, Mon, May 9, 2016 Updated: 16:10, Mon, May 9, 2016 The KIC 8462852 was spotted in 2015 by an online astronomy crowdsourcing group Planet Hunters. The mysterious star was theorised to have an ...

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Researchers at the SETI Institute have begun to search for alien signals coming from KIC 8462852 Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We have more ...

Newly analyzed observations by NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope show that the star KIC 8462852 — whose occasional, dramatic dips in brightness still have astronomers scratching their heads ...

Tabby's Star — officially known as KIC 8462852 — is acting weird, again. Recent reports indicate it has started to dim in brightness. That's what Tabby's star does — it dims. Astronomers were ready ...

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 ...

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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 ...

15:32, Fri, Sep 2, 2016 Updated: 15:50, Fri, Sep 2, 2016 Some believed that there was a natural explanation as to why the light coming from the star dimmed, while others claimed that a Dyson Sphere ...

THE world was electrified last year when it was suggested that scientists had spotted an "alien megastructure" orbiting a distant star. Now a space boffin has suggested huge extraterrestrial ...