This artist’s impression shows the red supergiant Antares, a dying star 12 times more massive than the sun that lies in the constellation of Scorpius. (Image credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO) ...

Antares is what Betelgeuse is to winter nights. Antares, prominent on summer nights (Northern Hemisphere, that is; Down Under, winter has just begun), is likewise bright and red. Like Betelgeuse, A… ...

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

Antares is a red supergiant — about 700 times larger than our sun — that lies in the southern constellation of Scorpius. The star is in its death throes and shedding material into space.

Antares is a red supergiant star located about 550 light-years away with a mass of about 12 times that of our Sun. It will someday explode as a type II supernova, and represents a “prototypical ...

Antares is just 15 million years old with maybe a million years of life left, while the sun's age is 4.6 billion years (375 times older). In human terms it's middle-aged with half a lifetime left ...

SAN DIEGO — Orbital Sciences Corp. expects to have U.S. government approval within about a year for using its Antares rocket to launch payloads to sun-synchronous orbit from NASA’s Wallops ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is expected to become brighter than Venus next week, and will probably be the brightest comet of 2025. It has already achieved a brightness similar to famously bright stars ...

The Moon passes 0.3° south of Antares in the constellation Scorpius at 1 A.M. EDT. The pair is high in the southern sky at this time, particularly for observers in the eastern half of the U.S ...