Even if you’re new to stargazing, no doubt you’ve seen the seven bright stars that outline the Big Dipper, and this time of ...

In order to find the ancient Three Leaps of the Gazelle asterism you must first locate the Big Dipper, which is high in the ...

Any day now, a massive stellar blast dubbed "the Blaze Star" could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a ...

One of my favorite star groupings of springtime was the Big Dipper. This group of seven stars is part of a larger constellation ... hovering over my house to the north. But what I learned from ...

We are all searching for the “still point of the turning world,” as poet T. S. Eliot wrote. For the brief moment in universal ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

We in the Western Hemisphere know of 88 constellations distributed around the ... It’s not that tough to find in the sky once you locate the seven stars of the Big Dipper, high in the north just after ...

And Venus is putting on a brilliant show as the Morning Star, rising around 4am in the east. To its lower right – and 200 ...

Even if you’re new to stargazing, no doubt you’ve seen the seven bright stars that outline the Big Dipper, and this time of ...

Ursa Major is one of the largest constellations in the heavens ... the two bright stars in the pot of the Big Dipper, as pointer stars to Polaris. The North Star should be about three of your ...