Betelgeuse is a red giant star that shines brightly in the night sky. It makes up one of the "shoulders" of Orion, one of the ...

Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion ... But either way, as stars go, that's not a lot. Our own sun will outlive multiple generations of such giants, and red dwarfs, the smallest stars in the ...

The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year.

If this were the case, then it means Betelgeuse is larger than expected and would be further along its evolution branch and that a supernova explosion may be imminent within the next few hundred ...

When Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation Orion, eventually goes supernova—likely within the next 100,000 years—the night sky will light up as if a second sun appeared ...