IF you're someone who believes you're just not destined to get along with a Gemini or like to proudly show off your Taurus tattoo, you may have had a minor panic over the past couple of days. 

Posts claiming Nasa had changed our star signs quickly went viral following reports earlier this week.

But what's the truth behind it?

According to BBC Stargazing Live, 98% of people in the UK know their star sign but around 86% of us were actually born under a different constellation to our star sign.

The dates of the ‘star signs’ were fixed more than 2,000 years ago when the zodiac was first devised.

They corresponded to the constellation of stars that appeared behind the Sun on the day you were born.

But an astronomical phenomenon, known as precession, means that the constellations have drifted since then. 

On top of that, the astronomical zodiac actually contains 13 constellations rather than the 12 everyone is familiar with.

Ophiuchus was deliberately left out of the original zodiac.

The reason for this is thought to be ancient astrologers wanted to divide the 360 degree path of the Sun in 12 equal parts.

It means the updated list of horoscopes from modern astrologers is widely being reported as looking like this:

• Capricorn: Jan 20 – Feb 16
• Aquarius: Feb 16 – March 11
• Pisces: March 11 – April 18
• Aries: April 18 – May 13
• Taurus: May 13 – June 21
• Gemini: June 21 – July 20
• Cancer: July 20 – August 10
• Leo: August 10 – September 16
• Virgo: September 16 – October 14
• Libra: October 14 – November 23
• Scorpio: November 23 – November 29
• Ophiuchus: November 29 – December 17
• Sagittarius: December 17 – January 20

But is this something to worry about?

Generally, no. A number of websites picked up on the story after a blog post on Nasa’s page explaining the difference between astronomy and astrology and how what we know as the zodiac is based on one created by the ancient Babylonians 3,000 years ago.

Since then, the position of the Earth relative to the stars has changed – meaning that different constellations will be visible and that the one people were born under has changed.

But the general view online appears to be modern astrology is its own thing and acts by its own rules.

And that it doesn’t really matter as long as everyone still reads their old star sign and astrologers still write about them the same way.