Regular readers of my column certainly know how to use the Big Dipper to find the North Star (aka Polaris). Some folks believe Polaris is important because it’s the brightest star in the heavens, and ...

As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our home looks southeast, and on winter nights the constellation Orion hangs ...

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The woman I was talking to seemed very sure of her facts, but they didn’t add up to me. She declared that the axis of the Earth had shifted 6 degrees, and somehow it was the fault of ...