Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Monday will see a very rare night sky event when Betelgeuse—one of the most famous and brightest stars of all—is covered by ...

“The only hypothesis that seemed to fit is that Betelgeuse has a companion.” The team’s research proposes that the Betelbuddy ...

"If the star's fundamental mode is its long-scale heartbeat, then Betelgeuse could be ready to blow sooner than expected ...

Al Jabbar is one of the Arabic names for Orion, the “Hunter", one of winter's most conspicuous constellations.

Caption 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 ...

The story describes Betelgeuse as “the red giant that marks ... new neural pathways in my dendrites and is keeping us all up-to-date on the latest physics, astronomy, biology, archaeology!” ...

This figure shows measurements of Betelgeuse's brightness from different observatories from late 2018 to present. The blue and green points represent data from ground-based observatories.