Moon gazers are in for a special sighting this year. June's Strawberry Moon is not only the lowest-hanging full moon since ...

A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Airports set to scrap boarding ...

The [Painting technique in which the artist ... [The so-called “heart of the scorpion” in the night sky] is ANTARES, a red supergiant star that is far larger and brighter than our ...

may be due to a much tinier star orbiting the red supergiant, a team of astronomers report. The companion star, if it exists, is roughly the same mass of our Sun, and may explain Betelgeuse’s lo ...

A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | mash mix by Space.com's [Steve Spaleta ...

This star cluster of the Pleiades (Seven Sisters ... astronomical traditions describe a variety of astronomical phenomena, such as the variability of red supergiant stars, the phases of the Moon, and ...

As spring reaches its peak in the Northern Hemisphere, many flowers emerge and blossom, painting the landscape with ... full Moon will make it difficult to see the star disappear behind it. Antares is ...

will occult the 1st-magnitude red supergiant star Antares, one of the brightest stars in the sky. This should be well worth rousing yourself out of bed in the dawn hours to watch if you live in ...

Credit: Andy Wellington, Preston & District Astronomical Society A star that exploded in a galaxy just 21 million light-years from Earth is a red supergiant, a North West astrophysicist has said.

Analyzing data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite literally blew its top in 2019 ...

When the bright, red supergiant star Betelgeuse blew its top in 2019, the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories were there to see it. Through this surface mass ejection, Betelgeuse ...

"We've never before seen a huge mass ejection of the surface of a star. We are left with something going on that we don't completely understand," an astronomer said. Supergiant Betelgeuse had a ...