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 ...

Speculation that a strangely pulsing star may have unnatural origins flared in 2015. A new survey has revealed it’s not alone. The star is designated KIC 8462852. It’s a yellow-white dwarf star ...

Dyson sphere stability — once considered an impossible physics problem — may be within reach. A peer-reviewed paper in ...

Stephen Hawking’s £80m ‘Breakthrough Listen’ project is to investigate a star which some think is orbited by an alien ‘megastructure’ - a Death Star-style mega-spaceship, sucking up its energy. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year, alien-hunters trained massive radio telescopes on a distant galaxy after planet-hunters spotted what might be an alien ...

ASTRONOMERS have crunched the numbers for an explanation of the weird flickering of a distant star. Instead of alien engineering, it’s probably indigestion. Speculation has swirled around KIC 8462852 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mysterious dimming phenomenon has been frequently observed, and it is said that there is "a huge building of aliens"StarStarted dimming again. In 2015, as viewed from the earth, in the direction of ...