But it's not going to hurt us. Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion, a red giant sitting about 500 light years away. It's huge ...

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

Some of the most massive and influential stars in the universe are OB stars. These blue giants, many times more massive than ...

The odds that Betelgeuse is preparing to blow its top still appear very slim, and it’s highly unlikely we’re about to witness the supergiant go full supernova anytime soon. Still, until anyone ...

New research suggests that powerful star explosions, called supernovae, may have caused at least two mass extinctions in ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

The red supergiant star Betelgeuse was captured by the Herschel Space Observatory. There are only two nearby stars that could go supernova within the next million years or so: Antares and Betelgeuse.

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

This figure shows measurements of Betelgeuse's brightness from different observatories from late 2018 to present. The blue and green points represent data from ground-based observatories.

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

but the good news is there are only two nearby stars that could go supernova within the next million years or so: Antares and Betelgeuse. However, both of these are more than 500 light-years away ...