Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of 'galaxy season' is just ahead as well.

Unlike most planets, HD 20794 d’s orbit around its star is 'elliptical' – elongated ... of all the planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone have been found. The majority of exoplanets are gaseous, like ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy—an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

Anselmi, T. Li The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid telescope has located a rare hoop of light called an "Einstein ring" in a nearby elliptical galaxy. Though the galaxy has been on humans ...

NEPTUNE -- The township agreed to a deal with a joint venture group to redevelop the Headliner nightclub and Sunsets Riverfront Bar and Restaurant on Route 35 into a hotel, two residential ...

One day, however, the two galaxies may collide, forming a giant, egg-shaped elliptical galaxy. But that great merger won't happen for billions of years. Mark is an award-winning journalist and the ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. And it is getting closer, as the two will merge in several billion years. It has been an object of study for centuries, but we have never ...