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 ...

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 ...

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%, ...

KIC 8462852 (aka. Tabby's Star) continues to be a source of both fascination and controversy. Ever since it was first seen to be undergoing strange and sudden dips in brightness (in October of 2015) ...

It's looking less and less likely that a faraway star's strange dimming was caused by some kind of "alien megastructure." Observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope recently revealed that the star ...

Tabby's Star, scientifically known as KIC 8462852, has become a point of great intrigue in the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life following wild-sounding ideas that an "alien megastructure" ...

Ever since it was first announced in 2015, there has been speculation as to what could account for the dimming of KIC 8462852. Credit: SentientDevelopments.com Ever since it was first announced in ...

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 ...

The mystery surrounding the oddly dimming “Tabby’s Star” has deepened yet further after a new study has highlighted just how unusual it really is. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science ...