A century-old astronomical mystery has just been solved: Betelgeuse, the massive red supergiant in Orion’s shoulder, has a ...

Astronomers directly imaged a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, solving a decades-old mystery about its strange ...

Betelgeuse, one of the largest stars ever discovered, is reaching the end of its life. In the coming centuries or perhaps even right now it could explode into a supernova visible even during the day.

The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, which shines intensely in the constellation of Orion, has always intrigued astronomers ...

Poet and artist Judith Nangala Crispin’s verse novel was created after travelling through central Australia’s deserts by ...

Stargazers have been looking up for the past few weeks, hoping to get a glimpse of the Orionid meteor shower. But this week is the peak. The meteor shower is active from Oct. 2 to Nov. 7, the American ...

Spot November’s supermoon, Leonids peak, and Uranus at opposition, plus a dark-sky new moon and a Moon-Saturn pairing. Here’s when to look.

Thanks to observations using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), astronomers have ...

"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding ...

Close companions can influence stellar evolution in many ways. While some companions can be detected around young stellar ...

For the first time, astronomers have detected a massive eruption — severe enough to devastate the atmosphere of a nearby ...