This month, lying just above the southern horizon as darkness falls is a bright complex of stars stretching along the southern Milky Way. They include the constellations of Centaurus, Lupus and Crux.

As one of the largest constellations in the sky, Centaurus was noted by a number of ancient civilizations; the Babylonians associated it with a creature that was a cross between a man and a bison, ...

One of the most interesting of the constellations is now dominating the low southern sky at around 9:30 p.m. local daylight time — the mythical half-horse, half-man creature known as the Centaur.

A rare nova, V462 Lupi, is making a bright appearance in the night sky in the Lupus constellation. Here's what to know.

These constellations are used for more than just remembering stories, Cook says. ... exist in the Centaurus constellation. Even over thousands of years, ...

Centaurus A (), located some 12 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus the Centaur, is the fifth-brightest galaxy in the night sky and hosts an exceptionally powerful supermassive ...

Located in the constellation Centaurus, the galaxy was discovered in 1826 by James Dunlop. In 1847, John Herschel noted its peculiar shape—it looks elliptical when viewed from Earth, with a lane ...

This image shows wide (left) and close-up (right) views of the moon-forming disk surrounding PDS 70c, a young Jupiter-like planet nearly 400 light-years away. (Photo by ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et ...

Centaurus A looks at first glance like a ball-shaped or giant elliptical galaxy, resembling M87 (number 25 on our list).But such galaxies are famous for being footloose and dust-free, while NGC ...