UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A new type of pulsating star has been discovered. Penn State says its researchers were part of an international team that found the star, which has a brightness that oscillates ...

For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy visible with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere. This star is more ...

New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clues about the immense size and scale of our universe. Cepheids are a type of variable star that ...

Astronomers from Poland and Germany have performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a blue variable object designated OGLE-GD-WD-0001. As a result, they found that the investigated object ...

In this visualization of stars observed by ESA's Gaia mission, the "frequency of the rotating and pulsating stars was increased 8.6 million" to make them audible to humans. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC ...