At the center of our galaxy, an invisible black hole exerts a formidable attraction on everything around it. The Very Large ...

A large emergency response was under way in the German town of Mainaschaff after a gas cloud was released following an accident at an industrial plant, authorities said on Tuesday evening. Two people ...

Recent observations from April this year of the galactic center have revealed that parts of the in-falling gas cloud, which was detected in 2011, have already swung past the black hole at the heart of ...

Galaxies like our own were built billions of years ago from a deluge of giant clouds of gas, some of which continue to rain down. Now new calculations tie the rain of giant clouds of gas to active ...

Astronomers operating the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope think they’ve found three gas clouds that formed in the aftermath of the very first stars, when the Big Bang was still in ...

As detailed in a paper to be published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the international team of researchers spotted the crescent-shaped gas cloud, dubbed Eos, on the edge of the Local Bubble, an ...

A mysterious, ultrafast cloud may be the result of the explosive stellar death that birthed a neutron star 100,000 years ago and around 532 light-years away, new research reveals. High-velocity clouds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emergency officers work after a gas cloud that was released at an industrial plant in the municipality of Mainaschaff. (Best ...