For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies, which feature arms covered in ...

Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

NASA has released new cosmic images captured by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes. The images feature stellar phenomena like Westerlund 2, Jupiter's auroras, the Lost Galaxy, the Black Eye ...

The space debris doesn’t just drift aimlessly but may actually take the shape of a mini galaxy. That’s exactly what new research ... Rather than an amorphous sea of space rocks, it might actually have ...

Now, a new model suggests that the inner part of the Oort Cloud may have an unexpected structure resembling a spiral, much like a miniature galaxy. The Oort Cloud begins roughly 2,000 – 5,000 ...

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The Oort cloud — the mysterious shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system — might sport a pair of spiral arms that make it resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests.

(CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The constant, rapid-fire ...