Summer is a good time to view the Big Dipper because it's high in the northern sky during the evening. The Big Dipper is not ...

Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was ...

A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier ...

Polaris, which lies roughly 430 light-years from Earth, marks the end of the Little Dipper’s handle. Alternatively, it’s the ...

Planets, constellations, and meteor showers are only part of it. Stargazing in Wadi Rum is as much about feeling as it is ...

High in the northeast, the sky’s most recognizable star pattern — the Big Dipper — is easy to spot after sunset. The Dipper is part of the third-largest constellation, Ursa Major the Great ...

See the Moon near some of the brightest planets this month, and be on the lookout for some of the rarest meteors to spot.

Our star, the Sun, rises at 5:17 a.m. E.D.T. (Eastern Daylight Time) from June 8 through June 22. Sunset is at 8:27 p.m.

Face north and lie back on a lawn chair, and you’ll easily see the Big Dipper in the high northwest sky hanging upside down by its handle. The Big Dipper isn’t an official constellation ...