The KIC 8462852 was spotted in 2015 by an online astronomy crowdsourcing group Planet Hunters. The mysterious star was theorised to have an ‘alien megastructure’ surrounding it, after experts and ...

One of the most unusual stars in our galaxy, KIC 8462852, has been the subject of an immense amount of interest in the last few months. Interest in the star, which is 1,480 light-years away, began ...

The mystery of whether a darkening star is home to an alien megastructure might be solved with the aid of crowdfunding, researchers said. Last fall, a star named KIC 8462852 made news when volunteers ...

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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 ...

An artist's illustration depicting a hypothetical dust ring orbiting Tabby's star, more formally known as KIC 846. Well, we always knew the alien-megastructure idea was a long shot. E.T. has nothing ...

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 ...

Last year, alien-hunters trained massive radio telescopes on a distant galaxy after planet-hunters spotted what might be an alien ‘megastructure’ orbiting a star. The star, KIC 8462852, dimmed by 22%, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...