Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were born between November 22 and December 21, you may know you’re a Sagittarius. You may even know that you’re such a ...

Astronomers have uncovered a startling source of high-energy gamma radiation much closer to home than previously believed. The microquasar V4641 Sagittarii (V4641 Sgr), located within the Milky Way, ...

In the August 2013 issue of Astronomy, we printed a two-page chart of the constellation Sagittarius the Archer. On that chart, I included the locations and basics for 40 deep-sky objects.

Sagittarii are those people you see telling jokes to large crowds, or fulfilling elaborate proposals to their significant others. Our dream is to travel the world and discover the truth within ...

Astronomers have announced new images that clearly reveal the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii. The SMA images provide an unusually vivid ...

Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian’s Submillimeter Array (SMA) radio telescope system clearly reveals the presence of a rotating, molecular disk ...

Giant planets, comets and Pluto-like bodies may form around binary star systems, not just single stars, a new study suggests. The evidence comes via a rotating, molecular disk found orbiting the young ...

Betelgeuse, or Alpha Orionis (α Ori), is a red supergiant in the Orion constellation. With a radius about 764 times that of the Sun, it’s one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye. Meet KW ...