For decades, astronomers have listened to the stars' beating hearts. The stellar music is not only cosmically soothing, but it also provides scientists with crucial data on the internal structure of ...

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 ...

An unusually powerful pulsating aurora display lit up skies over Arctic Norway for nearly three hours during a colossal geomagnetic storm. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This isn't your average Northern Lights display. Captured by expert Tom Kerss, this footage shows a rare pulsating aurora that flickers on and off. We explain the science behind this incredible ...

“By using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile, along with other telescopes, we have measured the mass of a ...

Pumping liquids may seem like a solved problem but optimizing the process is still an area of active research. Any pumping application -- from industrial scales to heating systems at home -- would ...

A star that pulsates on just one side has been discovered in the Milky Way about 1500 light years from Earth. It is the first of its kind to be found and scientists expect to find many more similar ...

Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a binary star system known as KIC 5623923. As a result, they found that the investigated system is a faint eclipsing binary ...

Allison N. Jaynes is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1479, USA. Read the paper: Pulsating aurora from electron scattering by chorus waves Because ...