While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

At around 10 p.m. local daylight time on these warm June evenings, face north and look overhead to see the seven stars that compose the famous Big Dipper. At this time of the year, the handle ...

Use Dubhe and Merak, the two bright stars in the pot of the Big Dipper, as pointer stars to Polaris. The North Star should be about three of your fist-widths at arm’s length to the lower right ...