Have you ever noticed a constellation while driving at night and wondered what it was? Or looked up after dark and wondered what you were looking at? The night sky appears is constantly changing, ...

If one looks high in the northeast or almost straight overhead for Capella on winter evenings, they can see Capella, the ...

Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation in the northern sky, whose associated mythology likely dates back into prehistory. Its Latin name means "greater (or larger) bear", ...

On December and January evenings, Orion rises early and dominates the southern sky by mid-evening, making him the easiest ...

The best way to look at the stars is to lie flat on your back. If you do that in April and May you'll stare straight up at the Big Dipper. Even if you live in a light-polluted location, the Dipper is ...

We're here to help you reach for the stars and complete the NYT Strands puzzle for today, April 25, 2025. Fans of word puzzles like Wordle or Connections definitely have to give Strands a go. In this ...

The Big Dipper is part of the Ursa Major constellation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb Space Telescope is setting ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. Markarian 178 (Mrk ...

Every February we come face to face with Ursa Major the Great Bear. He's a friendly bruin, but on these biting nights you'll need to dress warmly to see him. Although a little early for real bears to ...

Lying some 85 million light years away, tucked deep within the Ursa Major constellation, lies the galaxy NGC 2814. Unlike the eye-catching, spiral-shaped family of galaxies (of which the Milky Way is ...

Shannon Silverman, an astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode 6, she tells us about some summer constellations.

Anyone who enjoys gazing at the night sky probably has a few favorite star patterns they like to look for: The Big Dipper, for example, or Orion’s belt. But those familiar shapes that many of us ...