The fact that Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky over Earth, visible with the naked eye, has made it one of ...

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

Paris, France (AFP)-Since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians, people across the world have gazed up in awe at ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. These two ...

Then in 2019, astronomers spied a second object called 2I/Borisov, which looked and acted a lot more like a comet.Astronomers managed to scope it out as it was making its way into the solar system ...

Within a matter of hours, it became clear that this voyager wasn’t even from our solar system: Its orbit was too steep, its speed was too great. Astronomers quickly concluded that this was an ...