A spectacular display of northern lights danced over North Pole, Alaska, on March 22, as the University of Alaska Fairbanks orecast high aurora activity in the region. This footage, filmed by Vincent ...

The number of these circumpolar stars increases as you move toward the North Pole. There are no circumpolar stars at the ...

Once darkness falls, cast your eye in the direction of north. In fact, our target tonight lies extremely close to the North Celestial Pole — so close that we now call Polaris the North Star. You’ll ...

Every community has a tourist attraction everyone knows about but locals never visit. Perhaps it’s because it’s always there and can be seen anytime. And yet “anytime” often ends up translating to ...

However, Polaris was not always the pole star. In 3942 BCE, the star Thuban, in the constellation of Draco – the Dragon, was ...