Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies. Earlier this month, we spoke of Ursa Major, the Big Bear, so this week ...

The star Polaris marks the North Celestial Pole in our sky, around which all other objects in the heavens appear to rotate.

July stargazing is certainly a late show, but it’s worth losing some sleep over because it’s now prime time for summer ...

Having a good phone app is a lot of fun and quite helpful in verifying stars, asterisms, and constellations. Most apps will ...

July stargazing is certainly a late show, but it's worth losing some sleep over because it’s prime time for summer ...

For more than a century, baseball teams in Fairbanks have played at midnight on the summer solstice, illuminated only by the ...

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

Foreshadowing the great reflecting telescopes of the last century and a half, Lord Rosse managed in 1845 to erect a mighty ...