Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also long been a topic of intrigue for astronomers.

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

Betelgeuse is one of the weirdest stars in the sky, but astronomers can now explain one of its most enduring mysteries. A small companion star has been confirmed, revealed by the wake it leaves as it ...

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

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

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

A multi-observatory study led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has characterized the impact of a newly discovered secondary star, Siwarha, on the circumstellar environment of ...

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 for decades. Now, researchers are closer than ever to proving that a ...

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, ...

Space scientists have solved the mystery of why one of the brightest stars in the sky acts strangely. Red supergiant ...

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 ...