Facts about the red giant star and where to find it are explained by Space.com's Chelsea Gohd. [Betelgeuse: The Eventual Supernova] Credit: Space.com / produced & edited by Steve / Chelsea Gohd / Judi ...

Just look for the three bright stars that make up Orion’s belt. Betelgeuse is a bright reddish star to the upper left of the ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead quietly collapsed into a black hole.

A stellar black hole is one that’s created from the gravitational collapse of particularly massive stars, typically greater than eight solar masses. For context, one solar mass is about equivalent to ...

The star used to be one of the brightest star in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

A brilliant star in our nearest galactic neighbor didn’t go out with a bang, it simply faded from sight, leaving scientists ...