News

There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...
Scientists have long speculated that Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is not alone. Now, thanks to ...
But all of that extra attention has led to another remarkable find. As it turns out, Betegeuse isn’t alone—it actually has a ...
More recently, astronomers have proposed a theory for its volatile nature, which explains the star's seemingly erratic ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Gemini Observatory, European ...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a companion star in a tight orbit around Betelgeuse, resolving a long-standing ...
Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...
Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the closest red supergiant to Earth. It has an enormous volume ...
Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...
The two objects make for a strange pair. Unlike Betelgeuse, which is approaching the end of its life, the blue-white ...
It's around 1.6 times the mass of the Sun, Howell and his colleagues believe, at an orbital separation of 4 astronomical ...
The Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has been used to capture an amazing view of a star-forming region known as the Lobster Nebula. It is 8000 ...