Who among us, fail to notice the beautiful holiday decorations that are in full view at this time of the year? Streets, homes and stores are festooned in evergreens and arrayed in bright lights. As a ...

Some physicists gaze at the stars in the sky, but Victor Tsai of Harvard University and John Wettlaufer of Yale University in the US gaze at the stars on frozen lakes. Such star patterns often ...

Humans have been navigating by the stars since ancient times, but a small yet diverse group of species also use the night sky to get around. Some recognize the movement of star patterns, while others ...

NASA has transformed data from distant stars into orchestral music. Using star vibrations and light variations, scientists ...

The variable stars flickering to the golden ratio are RR Lyrae — a class of pulsars first found in the constellation Lyra (bisected by the Milky Way here) Alan Dyer, Inc/Visuals Unlimited/Corbis The ...

Mysterious "golden stars" that pulsate in a fractal way have scientists stumped. Although these stars were spotted during a search for an extraterrestrial galactic Internet, the researchers say ...

You know how we know there’s a giant peanut in the center of our galaxy? Because X marks the spot. That was a fun thing to write. It also has the advantage of being true. Our Milky Way is a spiral ...