"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...
The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing through clouds of dust and gas ...
A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...
The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...
During its planned two-year mission, the observatory will collect data on more than 450 million galaxies, as well as more ...
Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.
An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...
Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...
The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...