For thousands of years, stargazers have seen shapes in the night sky. Some of these visions, like the mythological creatures of the zodiac, are said even today to guide the course of human destiny.

Worried that the old Greek and Roman constellations were unable to get children excited about the stars, scientists in the University of Birmingham Astronomical Society have developed new ...

For countless years, humans have gazed up at the sky and made sense of the stars by finding shapes in them — constellations of heroes, animals, and well-worn tales. Now, to celebrate the 10th mission ...

Imagining familiar images in the sky has always been an easy way to track the annual progress of the stars. Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 “official” ...