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.

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 ...

In another 55 centuries, the star Alderamin in Cepheus, the king, will occupy that prominent position. And by 14,000 A.D. the bright star Vega will lie closest to the north celestial pole.

They are Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia, Cepheus and Drago ... On May 31, it pairs with the bright star, Regulus. Now to the morning sky. Venus and Saturn continue to climb higher in the ...

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