A team of astronomers has used asteroseismology, or the study of stellar oscillations, to accurately measure the distance of stars from the Earth. Their research examined thousands of stars and ...

Astronomers have developed a new way of measuring cosmic distances by listening to the frequencies of "music" played by vibrating stars that collectively act as a vast orchestra of different cosmic ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...

For most of us, the countless bright spots in the nighttime sky all seem to be stars. But in fact, some of those spots are actually planets, or distant suns, or even entire galaxies located billions ...