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 ...

While it sounds like the plot of an Andy Weir novel. If an advanced civilization wanted to tap nearly all the power of its star, it could gather energy by putting a giant collection of light-catching ...