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 ...

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

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 ...

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 peculiar dimming of Tabby’s Star, also known as Boyajian’s Star, has captivated astronomers and sparked theories ranging from natural phenomena to massive alien megastructures. As scientists ...

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 ...

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 ...