While the Big Dipper is visible year round from many places, its orientation in the sky changes through the course of the year as Earth whirls around the Sun, and through individual nights too ...

Polaris is in an area of the night sky free from bright stars. Here's how to easily find the "North Star:" Find the Big Dipper—seven bright stars—Alkaid (at the tip of the tail, highest in the ...

The galaxies were found in the same path of the night sky—close to the Big Dipper—where the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field image was taken. When JWST began operations last summer several ...

Orion the Hunter and Taurus the Bull face off in the southern sky in early February as soon as it gets dark. Taurus is home to two of the brightest star clusters, the Pleiades and Hyades. Both are ...