In the constellation Cygnus, roughly 1,470 light-years from Earth, sits an otherwise unremarkable star that briefly became ...

Learn about the theories behind the unusual dimming of Tabby's Star, from alien megastructures to an orbiting companion ...

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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, ...

A rendering of a potential Dyson sphere, named after Freeman A. Dyson. As proposed by the physicist and astromomer decades ago, they would collect solar energy on a solar system wide scale for highly ...

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 ...