Jumping back in time, Thuban was positioned as a North Star some 4,700 years ago, as early civilizations thrived in ...

The next bright star on that path will be Errai. In around 5,000 years, Alderamin - another star in the constellation Cepheus - will be crowned the North Star, per the Royal Museums Greenwich website.

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 ...

Weather permitting, the International Space Station and the Chinese Tiangong will be making some nicely visible evening and ...

Cygnus the swan flies tonight. Deneb, the brightest star in the constellation, whose name means “tail” in Arabic, is two ...

The Bright Star 2021 joint military exercise, hosted by Egypt, kicked off at the Mohamed Naguib military base in the Northern Military Zone on 2 September. Twenty-one countries are taking part in ...

Astronomers witnessed two galaxies engaged in an intense deep-space battle for the first time. Watch the “cosmic joust” in action.