Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the ...

Spring is here, and with it a seasonal star formation is front and center in the night sky. Spring officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere on March 20 at 7:21 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

The Sickle is a famous asterism in Leo, which now also hosts Mars in the evening sky. Mars has now crossed the border from ...

While many other star patterns have changed their names over the millennia – Aries, the Ram, for instance was the Farm Labourer in ancient Mesopotamia – Taurus and Leo have kept their ancient ...