Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

We can easily see this “precession” effect with a spinning top. As the top rotates on its axis, it eventually slows down and begins to wobble. The axis about which the top spins no longer points in a ...

But it can be a much different story when we speak of the bright stars, especially in the case of the brightest one of all, Sirius. Its very name appears to be derived directly from the Greek word ...

That designation belongs to Sirius (Alpha Canis Majoris), while Polaris is 48th brightest ... While most open star clusters lie along the plane of our Milky Way, northernmost Cepheus holds ...

The multitude of stars that join our planets in populating an evening sky are fairly anonymous. The brightest star, and the nearest to earth are hardly household names the same way Orion's belt is.