Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s concept shows the red supergiant star Betelgeuse and an orbiting companion star creating a wake in the larger object ...

The nearby star Betelgeuse is expected to explode as a supernova sometime in the cosmic near future, creating a spectacular ...

Betelgeuse is the star that everybody can't wait to see blow up, preferably sooner rather than later. That's because it's a red supergiant on the verge of becoming a supernova and there hasn't been ...

For more than a century, Betelgeuse has looked like a star with a secret. It swells and fades on a six-year rhythm that never quite made sense. The star, about 650 light-years away in space, is old, ...