You might think you have a good grasp on the night sky. You can find Polaris, you’re familiar with Orion; you’ve checked out the Pleiades, and you’ve stared up at the Summer Triangle.

The Earth can be divided into four hemispheres: Northern, Southern ... also known as Polaris, is only visible in the Northern Hemisphere. Certain circumpolar constellations such as Ursa Major ...

Sitting around 1 degree away from the geographic North Pole, Polaris has been used in ... its title as Earth's North Star. In the Southern Hemisphere, where no particularly bright stars stand ...

An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere -- a nothosaur vertebra found on New Zealand's South Island. 246 million ...

The southern hemisphere is facing a summer of extremes, say scientists, as climate change amplifies the effects of natural climate variability. This comes in the wake of a summer in the northern ...

The planet lies among the background stars of southern Pisces the Fish during ... and the Sun illuminates 49 percent of its Earth-facing hemisphere. Saturn remains in Pisces all month, though ...