A team of more than 100 researchers, led by LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Assistant Professor Tabetha Boyajian, is one step closer to solving the mystery behind the "most mysterious star in ...

The mysteries of the Megastructure loom on the horizon once again as we solve further puzzles in The Talos Principle 2. It’s time for us to head back to the Megastructure and find out what happened to ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: In 2015, astronomers noticed something ...strange going on nearly 1,500 light-years from home. A star named KIC 8462852, aka Tabby's Star, kept ...

Scientists have discovered a giant ring-shaped structure in space, dubbed the Big Ring. The discovery challenges our understanding of the universe. The scientist who discovered it said it felt ...

In 2021, Jacob Geersen, a geophysicist with the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in the German port town of Warnemünde, took his students on a training exercise along the Baltic coast. They ...

Astronomer Tabetha Boyajian discusses Tabby’s Star, “the most mysterious star in the universe,” during a TED talk in February 2016 in Vancouver, B.C. (TED via YouTube) The astronomers who once ...

A mysterious star that sent alien-hunters scrambling for their telescopes over the last couple of years is finally yielding some of its secrets. The star – nicknamed Tabby’s Star – has intrigued ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There's a prosaic explanation for at least some of the weirdness of "Tabby's star," it would ...

If there ever was an alien megastructure orbiting Tabby’s Star, it has long since crumbled to dust. The dips in the weird star’s light are almost definitely caused by a ring of dust, not a huge opaque ...