"And yet there's still room to make significant new discoveries: in this case, a sunlike star hiding in plain sight, in the immense glare of a red supergiant. That is what excites me the most." Their ...

While this idea has yet to be confirmed with direct observation, a star like Betelgeuse having a stellar companion is actually pretty likely. After all, an estimated 85 percent of stars are ...

The X-ray-emitting binary system Cygnus X-3 features a massive Wolf-Rayet star donating matter to a compact object, probably ...

Betelgeuse: soon to be a supernova Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most massive stars in our night sky, is located in the Orion constellation at a relatively short distance of "only" 650 ...

Betelgeuse, the famous orange-red star shining prominently against the twinkling cohort of the Orion constellation, will soon go dark. The supergiant star will take a notable absence from Orion's ...

A star that exploded in a galaxy just 21 million light-years from Earth is a red supergiant, a North West astrophysicist has said. The explosion was detected around 10 days ago and made headlines ...

This illustration plots changes in the brightness of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, following the titanic mass ejection of a large piece of its visible surface. The escaping material cooled ...

The red supergiant Betelgeuse, a colossal star in the Orion constellation, experienced a massive stellar eruption -- the likes of which have never been seen before, according to astronomers ...

As Betelgeuse burns through fuel in its core, it has swollen to massive proportions, becoming a red supergiant. The massive star is 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) in diameter.