It's a fact: thumb through most astronomy books or sky watching guides and you'll find all the accolades going to the most brilliant and splashy star patterns such as Orion, the Hunter, Scorpius, the ...

Low in the south this month lurks a truly amazing constellation – a wonder of the sky for anyone living south of the equator, but sadly truncated by the horizon for those who reside in latitudes as ...

Low in the south in the summer sky shines the constellation Scorpius and the bright, red supergiant star Antares. Many of the brightest stars in Scorpius, and hundreds of its fainter stars, are among ...

Pisces, the "fishes," is the 14th largest constellation but its stars are relatively faint. [See our reference page about the constellation of Pisces.] Sagittarius, the "archer," represents the ...