It's almost certainly not an alien megastructure dimming the light of the distant star KIC8462852, known also as Tabby's Star and the Megastructure Sun, but the top natural-cause theory for the ...

A recent conundrum about a star 1,500 light years away discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope has extraterrestrial enthusiasts crying "alien" as an explanation, but scientists studying the star are ...

The peculiar dimming of Tabby’s Star, also known as Boyajian’s Star, has captivated astronomers and sparked theories ranging from natural phenomena to massive alien megastructures. As scientists ...

There has to be recognizable life out there, somewhere close enough we can find it. That's the idea behind SETI, and also the huge new alien-hunting Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope ...

Astronomers have their best solution yet to the mysterious alien megastructure star Scientists have a new explanation for Tabby’s Star’s mysterious dimming. Rather than an alien megastructure, a dying ...

If advanced alien civilisations are building vast satellite swarms designed to harvest a star’s energy, we should be able to see them – so why haven’t we? One answer might be that these structures, ...