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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAST year the world’s curiosity flared at the idea of an alien megastructure orbiting a mysterious distant star. But that theory has just been dealt an almighty blow. In October last year the world’s ...

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 ...

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" ...

THE strangest star in our skies has been stuttering for more than a century, dimming the idea it’s caused by comets. So does it look more like an alien megastructure? Now it seems that explanation has ...

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 ...