Auriga ranks 21st in size out of the 88 constellations, covering 657.44 square degrees (1.59 percent) of the sky. Its size is a bit of a hindrance to its visibility, however.

The constellation Auriga (pronounced or-EYE-guh) the Charioteer, a star pattern known by this name for several thousand years, is easy to recognize primarily because of its brightest star, Capella ...

Auriga is one of the original 48 constellations passed down to us by the ancient Greeks, so it's been around for at least a couple thousand years. But like a delicious baklava, constellation ...

Traditionally, Auriga is illustrated as a chariot with the driver who is holding a goat and her kids. Three of the dimmer stars in the constellation’s outline are nicknamed as the “kids.” ...

A Jupiter-like planet orbits a cool red dwarf star ~580 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Auriga the Charioteer. TOI-3757b is the lowest-density planet ever detected around a red dwarf.

Auriga sits atop the planet Venus in mid to late April. Look for the constellation at the end of dusk (around 9:15-10 p.m.) in the northwestern sky. The orange giant star Aldebaran in Taurus and ...