On July 21, 2025, NSF NOIRLab issued a press release stating that astronomers had detected a long-anticipated companion star ...

Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National ...

The findings confirm a long-standing theory first proposed in the early 1900s. More importantly, it sheds new light on how ...

More recently, astronomers have proposed a theory for its volatile nature, which explains the star's seemingly erratic ...

Scientists have long speculated that Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is not alone. Now, thanks to ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the closest red supergiant to Earth. It has an enormous volume, spanning a radius ...

Astronomers have finally imaged the long theorized companion star of Betelgeuse, solving a mystery regarding its dimming that ...

Astronomers directly imaged a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, solving a decades-old mystery about its strange brightness changes.

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the closest red supergiant to Earth. It has an enormous volume ...

But all of that extra attention has led to another remarkable find. As it turns out, Betegeuse isn’t alone—it actually has a ...

Interest in Betelgeuse intensified during its great dimming in 2019-20 and subsequent resurrection. Among several ...

A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system could be something far stranger than a comet, possibly even alien ...