Hotel Ursa in Orono has launched a celestial experience with Shawn Laatsch, a pioneer of the world’s first 3-D stereoscopic ...

Bears hold endless fascination for people—they’re huge, and intelligent, and they look oh so cuddly. It’s easy to imagine ...

The large, extinct creatures roamed the Twin Cities area more than 10,000 years ago and could grow to more than 200 pounds ...

we spoke of Ursa Major, the Big Bear, so this week we take a look at the Little Bear, Ursa Minor. Astronomy neophytes ...

This account of the origin of the two celestial bears comes from the Roman poet Ovid, based on myths of the ancient Greeks. But the connection of Ursa Major with a bear goes back millennia earlier ...

Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the Bears of the sky, have quite a story. I’ll cover that “tale of the tails” in a future Skywatch column.

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, star clusters and a possible supernova "imposter".

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars.

Ursa Major Technologies Inc. and Raytheon’s Tucson, Arizona-based rocket unit have completed a successful missile flight test for the U.S. Army, using the companies’ advanced long-range solid ...

A RUSSIAN cargo ship exploded and sunk off the coast of Spain while on a secret mission for Vladimir Putin. Ursa Major travelled through Gibraltar into the Mediterranean before it reportedly suffer… ...

The seven stars that make up this famous asterism are part of Ursa Major the Great Bear. And they offer a lot more than meets the eye.