Let's just call it the alien megastructure that wasn't. More than 100 researchers have released a study showing that the mysterious star KIC 8462852, better known as Tabby's Star, is almost certainly ...

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The mystery of why a distant star keeps dimming continues to baffle scientists, after a new report ruled out several "natural" explanations. The astronomical world lit up last year, after planet ...

Has an advanced alien civilization built a mind-boggling megastructure around the distant star KIC 8462852? It’s extremely unlikely, but astronomers promised to get to the bottom of the cosmic mystery ...

A vast megastructure of stacked basalt rings, invisible from the ground yet unmistakable from the air, has puzzled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bizarre behaviour of a star 1,300 light years from Earth may have finally been explained. NASA says the big dips in brightness ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...