Astronomers may have finally solved one of the weirdest mysteries of our night sky: why Betelgeuse, a massive star in the ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also ...

Few stars have rattled astronomers quite like Betelgeuse, the swollen red beacon in Orion that dimmed so dramatically in ...

NASA’s Hubble data shows a wake of dense gas around Betelgeuse, offering the clearest proof yet of a long-suspected companion ...

The bizarre dimming patterns of Betelgeuse, an enormous red supergiant star in the constellation Orion, have bewildered ...

Astronomers and scientists love Betelgeuse because it shines so brightly. While most stars appear as tiny points of light, ...

Betelgeuse’s long-standing mystery has been cracked: a hidden companion star is literally reshaping the giant from the inside out.

Using new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence ...

Astronomers have observed what they believe to be a never-before-seen companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, a pulsating red supergiant star in the shoulder of the Orion constellation. One of the best ...

Astronomers have confirmed that Betelgeuse has a close companion star, identified through a repeating wake of gas in its atmosphere, offering new insight into how massive stars change and lose materia ...

For decades, astronomers have tracked changes in its brightness and surface features in hopes of figuring out why the star ...

At the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, this one held in Phoenix on January 4-8, Andrea Dupree of the Center for Astrophysics|Harvard & Smithsonian presented a talk entitled, ...