Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday7Asteroid 7 Iris reaches opposition at 1 P.M. EST today. Now ...

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 ...

One of the largest stars known in the Universe has done something strange – and scientists are debating what it means. WOH ...

It’s Valentine’s weekend in Pottsville, and while in my opinion this is one of those holidays driven by greeting card companies, restaurants, flower shops, and more. It’s still a wonderful holiday ...

In January 1979, the oil tanker Betelgeuse suffered a catastrophic structural failure while unloading at the Bantry Bay oil terminal. Corroded ballast tanks, unsafe ballasting procedures, and ...

One of the largest stars close enough for us to estimate its size, WOH G64, appears to have gone from red to yellow in 2013-14, indicating a temperature rise of about 1,000°C (1,800°F). Last year it ...

Scientists have captured the moment a supergiant star collapses into a black hole, revealing the star's death in an incredible animation.

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

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.

Scientists sifting through archival data captured by NASA's former NEOWISE mission found an unusual star that quickly disappeared, fading to nothing ...

Vagins is an experimental physicist, but his work relies on a vast complex machine underpinned by an orchestra of subsystems – mechanical, electronic, computational and human – each playing precisely ...

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