Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

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 ...

Go outside about 3 a.m. local time and look for the Big Dipper in the northeastern sky. Follow the curve of its handle downwards to the northeast horizon, and you'll see the small but unmistakable ...

In November the Milky Way arches high across the mid-evening sky from east to west. At its eastern end, winter constellations ...

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 ...