Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

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

Some of my earliest stargazing memories involve the same seven stars. Whether you call it the Plough or the Big Dipper – or even the saucepan, the panhandle or the wagon – the stars that form ...

Alcor, a star in the middle of the Big Dipper's handle, has a newly found red dwarf companion (circled in green). Project 1640 astronomers discovered the faint star by blocking out almost all of ...

The bright constellations of winter have departed in the west, while the stars of spring are climbing the eastern and southern skies.

The seven brightest stars of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear, form this well-known asterism which is known as the Big Dipper. Photograph by Jamie Cooper. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images ...

Predicting that the Big Dipper in the northern sky will lose its form within 50,000 years, due to a shifting of the stars, Sidney W. McCuskey, assistant in Astronomy, opened the annual series of ...

From Tanna Borealis and Tanis Australis look for two more stars that form a curved line to the lower right that links up with the bright star Phecda and the corner of the Big Dipper’s pot (or ...

The stars immediately to the west and south of the bowl of the Dipper form a pretty good stick figure of this creature. Only the bear’s tail, a longish one composed of the three stars that form ...

A star in the Big Dipper is an intergalactic alien, according to clues in its chemical fingerprints.

Stars close to Polaris would make tight little circles around it. The farther stars are away from Polaris in the sky, the larger and larger their circles will be around the North Star.