In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

With a lining up of planets and distant galaxies visible to the naked eye, there is a lot to see in the skies in February.

Around midnight tonight in the east, a 55%-lit waning gibbous moon will be just a tenth of a degree from Spica, the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo and about 250 light-years distant.

It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our moon ... million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting ...

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...