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Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

Kenough, one of the brightest galaxies, shines 11.6 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. The Black ... a majestic spiral galaxy 27 million light-years away, is ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Glowing at magnitude 9.5, it is the faintest of the three, presenting an edge-on view of its spiral shape that makes it look a bit like the Cigar Galaxy (M82) in Ursa Major. Like M82 and its nearby ...

The Pinwheel Galaxy lies 21 million light-years away in the Ursa Major constellation ... This remarkable barred spiral galaxy is exceptionally active, having witnessed three supernovae since 1992. NGC ...

The night sky show for February is not finished. Starting on Friday, Feb. 14 – Sunday, Feb. 16 Venus will outshine everything ...

Programs include a session on fruit tree pruning, a salamander meet and greet and children's programming focused on bugs.

WASHINGTON — Rocket propulsion startup Ursa Major is accelerating development and testing of its Draper liquid rocket engine in collaboration with U.S. defense agencies and military contractors.

The dazzling spiral galaxy in this Hubble Space Telescope image is UGC 5460, located about 60 million light-years away in the ...

We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.