Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a companion star in a tight orbit around Betelgeuse, resolving a long-standing ...

Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the closest red supergiant to Earth. It has an enormous volume ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been used by astronomers to detect a planet being devoured by its dying host star, a process similar to the fate of Earth billions of years from now. Credits: ...

A team of astronomers discovered a strange object in the outer solar system that is in a resonant orbit with Neptune.

Led by NASA Ames scientist Steve Howell, the team used ‘Alopeke, a speckle imager named after the Hawaiian word for fox, to ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the closest red supergiant to Earth. It has an enormous volume, spanning a radius ...

It's around 1.6 times the mass of the Sun, Howell and his colleagues believe, at an orbital separation of 4 astronomical ...

The discovery is the first time such a close companion star has been detected orbiting a supergiant, according to a statement from the US research centre NOIRLab, which operates the Gemini Observatory ...

NSF-funded ‘Alopeke instrument on the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by NSF NOIRLab, ...

Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star closest to Earth, has finally been proven to have a companion star in observations from ...

Deep research’ AI agents combine large language models with sophisticated reasoning frameworks to conduct in-depth, ...