The Russian cargo ship Ursa Major sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria following an explosion in its engine room. Fourteen crew members were rescued and transported to Spain, while ...

In fact, Mizar itself is a quadruple star system consisting of two pairs of binary stars ... of 1.86 it is the third-brightest star in Ursa Major. It lies approximately 100 light-years from ...

The latest brand to reveal a new watch in celebration of the Year of the Snake, Arnold & Son introduces a new Perpetual Moon ...

The Okanagan Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (OCRASC) has some special plans for people who would like to ...

We begin feeling the loss of darkness only a few weeks after solstice. By February, the low-angle lighting that has graced our lives since November is gone, chased off by a sun th ...

People in Northern California will get a chance to view the Quadrantid meteor shower, but only if they are up to either waking up early or staying up really late.

Two crew members are missing after a Russian Defence Ministry-owned cargo ship, the Ursa Major, sank in international waters ...

The two set together around 5 ... asterism is part of the larger constellation Ursa Minor the Little Bear. Its handle is anchored by the North Star, the only star in the northern sky that does ...

A fresh spell of heavy snowfall in Himachal Pradesh's Manali on Monday left several vehicles stuck and tourists stranded in ...

As a new year gets into gear, here are the artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things up ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured image of two ... of Ursa Major. This galaxy is around 60 million light years away from the earth. The interacting galaxy duo is collectively called Arp 143. The ...