Betelgeuse is a colossal star that shines brilliantly in the constellation Orion, approximately 600 light-years from Earth. Immense and unstable, this red supergiant is in the final stages of its ...

The small, furtive companion of one of the brightest stars in Earth's night sky has just turned out to be something no one suspected. Instead of being the kind of object astronomers expected to find ...

Every so often, the universe puts on a show that reminds us how rare and unpredictable space can be. Planets […] ...