Polaris, also known as the 'Pole Star' or 'North Star', is arguably the most famous stellar body to hang in the western ...

Despite what you may believe, the brightest star in the night sky isn't the North Star, although it's probably the most ...

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 ...

That star, named Polaris, is the brightest in the constellation of Ursa Minor, "The Little Bear".

By the time you get to the North Pole, Polaris is directly overhead. People that far north see the same northern half of the sky dome all night and all year. Now heading south, Polaris will get ...

which is essentially an extension of Earth's geographic north pole, and around which the entire sky seems to rotate. As such, Polaris held a special significance to our ancestors, who used it to ...