The giant star Betelgeuse has been observed for thousands of years and its fluctuations in brightness have long been ...

Betelgeuse, easily visible to the naked eye and one of the largest stars near Earth, has captured human attention for millennia.

It's around 1.6 times the mass of the Sun, Howell and his colleagues believe, at an orbital separation of 4 astronomical ...

Since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians, people across the world have gazed up in awe at Betelgeuse, one of the ...

The two objects make for a strange pair. Unlike Betelgeuse, which is approaching the end of its life, the blue-white companion (or Betelbuddy) has yet to start burning hydrogen in its core. In other ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a companion star in a tight orbit around Betelgeuse, resolving a long-standing ...

On December 18, the beautiful celestial phenomena of the "companiment" moon in Bisuwu will appear in the sky. At that time, ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been used by astronomers to detect a planet being devoured by its dying host star, a ...

Led by NASA Ames scientist Steve Howell, the team used ‘Alopeke, a speckle imager named after the Hawaiian word for fox, to capture high-contrast, short-exposure images that revealed the dim star ...

But all of that extra attention has led to another remarkable find. As it turns out, Betegeuse isn’t alone—it actually has a ...

A team of astronomers discovered a strange object in the outer solar system that is in a resonant orbit with Neptune.