For years, we looked at Betelgeuse waiting for the end. When the "Great Dimming" happened in 2019, the world held its breath, ...

Betelgeuse is the star that everybody can't wait to see blow up, preferably sooner rather than later. That's because it's a ...

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 weirdest stars in the sky, but astronomers can now explain one of its most enduring mysteries.

Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of ...

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

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have uncovered direct evidence that the red supergiant ...

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

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, ...

A multi-observatory study led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has characterized the impact of a newly ...

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

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