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 ...

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 ...

A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) on record. Using FRBs as a guide, astronomers at the ...