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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

Scientists hope studies into Boyajian’s star could lead to enhanced techniques for identifying distant planetary civilisations It is our galaxy’s strangest star, a flickering globe of light whose ...

As per a new study, Dyson spheres around faint stars in the galaxy could offer new techno-signatures clues.