Shannon Silverman, an astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode 6, she tells us about some summer constellations ...

On Boötes’s eastern border, Corona Borealis, culminating at 9 p.m. June 30, is another constellation that’s unlikely to have come up recently in casual conversations.

First, let’s start with the good news. As with August stargazing any year, there’s still plenty of summer and great summer ...

Stack four fists above the constellation Bootes — which can be easily pinpointed using a smartphone stargazing app — to find your ideal, if optimistic meteor-hunting patch of sky.

The best to view them is after midnight. The radiant for this shower is near the constellation Bootes. That’s the general direction in the sky where the meteors seem to originate.

This 1825 etching provided by the Library of Congress shows an astronomical chart depicting Bootes the Ploughman holding a spear, a sickle, and two dogs, Asterion and Chara, on leashes, a quadrant ...