Former Swindon, Hibernian and Crawley striker Harry McKirdy retires from professional football at the age of 29. Garrett Clark addressed the elephant in the room for the first time during the Good ...

Observational astronomy shows that newly discovered young stellar objects (YSOs) in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* located in the center of our galaxy behave ...

Astronomers have used data from the European Gaia Space Telescope to discover 55 high-speed stars launched from the young star cluster R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the ...

Observation of the Cygnus X Region with the flying observatory SOFIA revealed that stars form there more quickly than previously assumed. CREDIT NASA Spitzer/IRAC MIPS, USRA/SOFIA (L. Proudfit, L.

In the fall of 2002, scientists calculated the mass of a truly gargantuan entity at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. It was four million times the mass of our Sun — so big it almost certainly had to ...