The constellation Cancer also contains a star, 55 Cancri, known to have a system of planets, four gas giants and a fifth smaller terrestrial planet which may have liquid water.

The dim constellation of Cancer, high toward the south during the late evening hours, is the least conspicuous of the 12 zodiacal constellations.

Cancer is a humble constellation, nestled in between its louder neighbours Gemini and Leo. Without any particularly bright stars of its own, Cancer is the faintest of all the zodiacal ...

The small constellation of Canis Minor, at right, with the bright star Procyon, and Cancer the crab to the left, with the star cluster Messier 44, or the Beehive The smaller cluster M67 is below ...

Venus and Jupiter are the two prominent planets in the west after sunset, with Venus lower and brighter. Mars rises about 9 p.m., and Saturn is up in the east about 1 a.m. Mercury is out of sight.

The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a galaxy nestled 67 million light-years away in the Cancer constellation—and it’s fluffy. Known as NGC 2775, the galaxy has fuzzy arms spiraling out from ...