Learn about the theories behind the unusual dimming of Tabby's Star, from alien megastructures to an orbiting companion planet. The sporadic dimming of a star more than 1,400 light-years from Earth ...

Boyajian’s Star has baffled astronomers for a decade with its chaotic brightness dips. A new Bayesian analysis by IAC ...

In the constellation Cygnus, roughly 1,470 light-years from Earth, sits an otherwise unremarkable star that briefly became one of the most talked-about objects in the sky. Its brightness does not vary ...

There's a prosaic explanation for at least some of the weirdness of "Tabby's star," it would appear. The bizarre long-term dimming of Tabby's star — also known as Boyajian's star, or, more formally, ...

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 ...

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 ...