Mid-June through July is my favorite time to see Ursa Major as a bear. She stands right-side up high in the northwestern sky so it's easy to picture the animal's form, part of which includes the ...

Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation in the northern sky, whose associated mythology likely dates back into prehistory. Its Latin name means "greater (or larger) bear", ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Victoria and Yale University has detected an ancient star system traveling around our galaxy named Ursa Major III / UNIONS 1 (UMa3/U1)—the faintest and ...