A star is heading toward the outskirts of our solar system, and it’s getting here sooner than expected.Gliese 710, a rogue ...

Researchers using the testbed interferometer at Palomar Observatory have achieved the best-ever distance measurement to a type of star known as a Cepheid variable. The new results improve the "cosmic ...

The Veil Nebula, a delicate network of glowing gaseous filaments in the northern constellation of Cygnus the Swan, has long been a favorite of both amateur and professional astronomers. Part of a much ...

Astronomers have for the first time precisely measured the distance to one of the oldest objects in the universe, a collection of stars born shortly after the big bang. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble ...

The North Star has been a guiding light for countless generations of navigators. But a new study reveals that its distance to Earth may have been grossly overestimated. In fact, the North Star—also ...

The most precise measurement yet of the distance to the Pleiades star cluster is reviving a dispute that has split the astronomy community largely down a trans-Atlantic divide for the past 17 years.

The distance to one of the oldest star clusters has been precisely measured by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope for the first time. This measurement provides a more accurate and independent estimate ...