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

The 2025 summer solstice takes place on June 20, heralding the onset of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year.

Explore the key differences between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, including seasons, climate, constellations, and more, explained simply for students. Understand how Earth's tilt affects ...

It’s one of the most famous stars in the night sky. If you grew up with stories about navigation, camping, […] ...

The star Polaris marks the North Celestial Pole in our sky, around which all other objects in the heavens appear to rotate.

"If the effect is real and scaling behaves the way our equations say, then the possibility becomes real," Chyba told Newsweek ...

The Polaris Dawn mission is set for Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, and it will see four private citizens orbit Earth in a SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft for five days, during which a series of experiments ...

As the Earth travels around the sun, it does so at an angle relative to the sun. For most of the year, the Earth’s axis is tilted either toward or away from the sun.

The Earth’s axis is at approximately 23.5 degrees during its orbit around the sun. Because of this tilt, during its annual trip around the sun, different parts of the Earth are tilted closer to ...