Sirius, famously known as the “Dog Star,” is the brightest star in Earth’s night sky and has fascinated humans for millennia.

Sirius is special, not so much that it is at the top of the list of the 21 brightest stars in the sky, but it also out-dazzles its nearest competitor, Canopus, the second brightest star by 0.8 of ...

In some Texas cities, the dog days of summer and the historically hottest days of the year overlap, when you look at ...

The two brightest nighttime stars visible in the Pottsville sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only month of the year when we can enjoy both of them at the same time in the early evening ...

Sirius, the brightest star of the entire night sky. North or south. Sirius can be easily found by following the three stars that make up Orion's belt in a diagonal line toward the horizon.

For the Egyptians, the Dog Star was called Sothis. Its rise coincided with the annual flooding of the Nile River, and Sothis ...

While the dates vary from source to source, the term "dog days" generally refers to the 40 days beginning on July 5 and ending on August 11 when Sirius, the brightest star in the constellation ...

Next to the Sun, Sirius is the brightest star in the sky. Although it is bright, at 8.6 light years away from Earth, it is too far away to heat the Earth. Despite that distance, ...

This large, nearly equilateral triangle is composed of three of the brightest stars in the sky, each belonging to its own constellation. The brightest is the bluish-white star Sirius (magnitude -1 ...