There is a dragon in our night sky. Draco is one of the circumpolar constellations that is above the northern horizon year-round, but is especially well-positioned to pick out at this time of year. On ...

October's first of two meteor showers is approaching, one that once saw tens of thousands of fiery stars shoot across the sky in 1946 Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital ...

As August arrives, the full moon will overwhelm our night sky with its light. But once the moon leaves the early evening sky later in the week, you might enjoy getting out and searching for Draco, the ...

Some constellations are easy to see, and some are not. Draco the Dragon is not the easiest of constellations to find, but once you do, you feel like you’ve really accomplished something. It always ...

Sky watchers from prehistory onward have long recognized that during the course of a given night, the stars and constellations appear to “orbit” about a single fixed point in the night sky. This ...

If you look high in the northwestern sky toward the end of evening twilight you'll easily find the familiar stars of the Big Dipper. Shoot an imaginary arrow through the two stars in the bottom of the ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our own solar system.