Understanding what’s causing Betelgeuse’s pulsations could also help predict when the star might explode. Astronomers gauge a ...

The cold, hard truth is, it's unknown when Betelgeuse, at some 640 light-years away, will collapse into a supernova. "We ...

Now nearing the end of its life, Betelgeuse likely will explode as a supernova and be visible in the daytime sometime in the next 100,000 years. That would be big news because a supernova hasn’t ...

A supernova hasn’t been seen to explode in our Milky Way galaxy since the 17th century. Betelgeuse will inevitably explode as a supernova, but that could occur at any time in the next 100,000 years.

New images created by the Hubble Space Telescope show that Betelgeuse — one of the brightest stars visible from Earth — wasn’t dimming because it was about to explode, but because there was ...

Betelgeuse star against starry sky artistic vision, elements of this image furnished by NASA. Inset Dr Devika Credit: Getty/Devika Betelgeuse is a Class M Red Supergiant star, and is approximately ...

The story describes Betelgeuse as “the red giant that marks Orion’s left shoulder.” Reader Chris Jespersen wrote: “I often see Betelgeuse on Orion’s right shoulder…. Am I mistaken?” ...