Probably the most famous is positioned almost directly over our heads this week as darkness falls: the Big Dipper.

Fortunately, in addition to the seasonal star charts here, the sky provides us with two major signposts. Each seasonal description will talk about the Big Dipper — a group of seven bright stars ...

Most of us can spot the group of stars known as the Plough or the Big Dipper. But there’s more to explore here, says Abigail ...

Even if you take a neolithic 30,000 BCE mammoth tusk as being our earliest star chart, the Big Dipper still looks a lot like the Big Dipper. But if humans manage to stick around the Big ...

And front and center right now appears one of the most familiar and easy-to-find star groupings: the Big Dipper. We in North America call it the Big Dipper, but those in Great Britain know it as ...

The only star pattern I could recognize was the Big Dipper, but with a star chart in a book, I used that to discover the bright star Arcturus in the constellation Boötes. The trick to learning ...

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere you only need to look overhead and toward the north where you will find the seven bright stars that comprise the famous Big Dipper. For most sky gazers ...

This week on Star Watch, you will slowly be able to see the moon get a little fuller each night as well as a chance to see the constellation the Big Dipper. As we head through the overnight ...

Arcturus is the brightest star if you look straight overhead (Sky & Telescope). Spot the Big Dipper in the sky tonight (Sky & Telescope)! You will want to look about an hour after sunset (Sky ...