The winter sky has some brightly lit star patterns visible this month, including a triangle featuring Mars, making it ...

The "shooting stars" produced by the Ursid meteor shower appear to come from the Ursa Minor constellation, best known as either the Little Bear or the Little Dipper. The Ursids will appear to come ...

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

Polaris is the tip of a “Little Dipper,” a shape of stars that's always opposite the Big Dipper. Also called Ursa Minor, all its other stars are fainter than the Big Dipper’s, so you’ll ...

Its Latin name means "greater (or larger) bear", referring to and contrasting it with nearby Ursa Minor, the lesser bear. In antiquity, it was one of the original 48 constellations listed by ...

As the winter constellations head into the sunset, Mars struggles to avoid the same fate. May Day finds the red planet on course to glide between the bright stars Procyon, in Canis Minor, to the ...

All the other stars in the sky appear to orbit this star. It is also the tip of the tail of Ursa Minor, the star at the end of the handle of this smaller saucepan. 5. Follow the handle around in a ...