Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

Early Spiral Galaxy Captured for the First Time Using Gravitational Lenses . For the first time ever, scientists have ...

The researchers involved with the new study were interested in the inner Oort cloud for another reason: its shape. Pairing an analytic model with the supercomputer simulation, they concluded that the ...

Most of the quasars astronomers have detected are old, the product of multiple galaxy collisions leaving them with an elliptical shape. When observing quasar J0742+2704, Achenbach was surprised to ...

The shapes can seem to appear out of nowhere: an undulating S-like spiral streaking across the European skies or a glowing orb trailing above the North American coast. Such strange light shows ...

Sightings of spiral-shaped UFOs (sometimes also described as "whirlpools") have been a growing trend in the last few years. A spiral of bluish-gray light passed over Norway and Sweden on Dec. 9, 2009.

More than that, though, Arp 184 is skewed so that it isn’t perfectly spiral shaped. ... While the Hubble Space Telescope might be most famous for its images of beautiful and far-off objects ...

The Hubble data clearly shows J0742+2704 is still a spiral galaxy, but there are some hints of interactions with other objects that could offer hints as to its evolution.

The shapes can seem to appear out of nowhere: an undulating S-like spiral streaking across the European skies or a glowing orb trailing above the North American coast. Such strange light shows ...