T Coronae Borealis, a star system 3,000 light-years away, is expected to erupt as a nova in June 2026, briefly becoming ...

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For over two centuries, we have watched the red giant R Leonis dim and brighten with regularity, but this 'heartbeat' is beginning to speed up near the end of the star's life.

Read full article: Why is there an abandoned missile base in this remote Florida marsh? Artist's concept of a red giant star and white dwarf orbiting one another. When the red giant moves behind the ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have uncovered a celestial “song” emanating from a red giant star in the Gaia BH2 system, located ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

A distant red giant star is rippling with seismic vibrations, and for the first time, a NASA spacecraft has translated those subtle pulses into a kind of cosmic song directed at a hidden black hole ...

You live in a galaxy packed with black holes that never announce themselves. They do not blaze in X-rays or glow with stolen gas. They hide. Astronomers find them by watching the stars that dance ...

Together, the observations and simulations show that dust grains alone cannot explain how winds escape from oxygen-rich red giant stars like R Doradus. At this late stage of stellar life, stars ...

The dimming of Betelgeuse seen at the end of 2019 and the start of 2020 explained — the red giant star “sneezed.” Betelgeuse dimmed in the final few months of 2019, perplexing both professional and ...

On the evening of Sunday, Aug. 3, skywatchers will be treated to a close encounter between two of the sky’s brightest nighttime objects. Just after sunset, the waxing crescent moon will appear ...