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 ...

Researchers from SETI hope to discover whether deep space mystery object was built by an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to ...

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 ...

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 ...

For two weeks, a powerful radio telescope with 42 six-meter antennas has tuned into a star where astronomers sighted something very, very strange. Alien-hunters suggested that the object which made ...

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 ...

Alien-hunters trained massive telescopes on a mysterious star last year after it started ‘dimming’ – hinting that something was passing in front of it. Some people were sure it was the sign of an ...

The scientific world lit up last week after stargazers spotted a mysterious object way out in deep space and claimed it was an "alien megastructure". Astronomer Jason Wright from Penn State University ...

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 ...

If an alien megastructure indeed encircles a star known as KIC 8462852, it's 1,500 years old and no one may be home anymore. Q: What’s the deal with that star that was giving off weird light signals?