New observations of perhaps the weirdest star scientists know have finally put to rest one of the most engaging hypotheses to explain its wild behavior: that aliens had built a giant structure around ...

Since its discovery two years ago, a star that resides around 1,300 light years from Earth has gained a reputation as the most bizarre in the galaxy. Named KIC 8462852, the star gained worldwide ...

The SETI Institute is following up on the possibility that the stellar system KIC 8462852 might be home to an advanced civilization. This star, slightly brighter than the Sun and more than 1400 ...

Everyone’s favorite alien-megastructure-that-never-was got another affirmation that it’s just a goddamn star today. According to SETI, there are NO EXTRATERRESTRIAL LASERS emanating from the baffling ...

KIC 8462852 is a superficially ordinary main sequence F star for which Kepler detected an unusual series of brief dimming events. We obtain accurate relative photometry of KIC 8462852 from the Kepler ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bizarre dimming of the “alien megastructure” star KIC 8462852 could be caused by a Saturn-like planet with tilted ring ...

The more we study the star called KIC 8462852, nicknamed "Tabby's star," the more mysterious it becomes. The latest research by astronomers Josh Simon and Ben Montet show Tabby's star has exhibited a ...

In late 2015, the scientific community was fueled up by the Kepler Space Telescope's detection of several mysterious objects that orbited around the giant star KIC 8462852. Nicknamed Tabby's Star, KIC ...

Now it seems that explanation has itself been discarded. A new review of the history of astronomical observations including this star dating back to 1890 has revealed whatever is masking KIC 8462852’s ...

Although it might seem like the most bizarre thing in the universe right now is the 2016 presidential election, the universe is big enough that, statistically, there must be something weirder ...

Tabby's Star — officially known as KIC 8462852 — is acting weird, again. Recent reports indicate it has started to dim in brightness. That's what Tabby's star does — it dims. Astronomers were ready ...

The star KIC 8462852 caused an entire scientific controversy because of what seems to be a bizarre behavior. In 2015, it underwent short and non-periodic dimming moments, as captured by NASA's Kepler ...