Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows that bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse "blew its top" in 2019, losing a substantial part of its visible surface and producing a gigantic Surface Mass ...

When Beetlejuice goes off, it's going to be the show of a lifetime. But it's not going to hurt us. Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion, a red giant sitting about 500 light years away. It's huge, ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky has been getting oddly brighter, prompting speculations that it might soon explode in a supernova. Should we really look forward to such a dazzling ...

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. Betelgeuse ...

Astronomers are still making new discoveries about the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, which experienced a mysterious "dimming" a few years ago. That dimming was eventually attributed to a cold spot ...

Betelgeuse, one of the largest stars ever discovered, is reaching the end of its life. In the coming centuries or perhaps even right now it could explode into a supernova visible even during the day.

Over the last couple of years, Ars has dedicated a fair number of electrons to our local red supergiant, Betelgeuse. The massive star went through an odd uneven dimming, leaving the astronomy ...