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 ...

Not many of the sky’s 88 constellations look like the mythological figures they portray. Of the handful that do, the most compelling formation arguably belongs to Scorpius, now up at nightfall in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scorpions are creatures that attempt to avoid notice or attention, that lurk in the shadows and ...

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 ...