Polaris, also known as the 'Pole Star' or 'North Star', is arguably the most famous stellar body to hang in the western hemisphere's night sky. For centuries it has served as a vital waypoint for ...
Earth wobbles on its axis like a spinning top, a motion called precession. This wobble takes about 26,000 years to complete one full circle. Different stars have served as the North Star throughout ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a study examining the dynamics of neutral hydrogen gas within the North Celestial Pole (NCP) Loop, scientists have uncovered an unforeseen revelation -- a ...
Dinah Ashman explains how modern astronomy may have put a new date on the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza. A new theory of how exactly the ancient Egyptians oriented the pyramids according to ...