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

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the diameter of our sun and 36.7 light years away. Boötes is chasing the Bears with ...

Most of us can spot the group of stars known as the Plough or the Big Dipper. But there’s more to explore here, says Abigail ...

Most people are familiar with the Big Dipper even if they have little interest in astronomy. It is one of the “circumpolar” ...

Many people grow up believing the Big Dipper is a constellation, but it’s not. It’s an asterism — a small, eye-catching, connect-the-dots pattern made of stars lying either within a single ...

Located within Canes Venatici beneath the curve of the Big Dipper’s long handle, this gaggle of stars is easy to find with ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

The Big Dipper is not only one of the easiest-to-find star groupings but one that can be used as a tool to find others. Credit: Creators.com illustration Spring has sprung in the Earth’s ...

One of my favorite star groupings of springtime was the Big Dipper. This group of seven stars is part of a larger constellation known as Ursa Major, the Great Bear, but tracing a bear is not for ...