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

The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

"The disk, when viewed from a distance, would appear as a spiral structure with two twisted arms," the authors wrote. Those "arms" resemble the elongated structures of a spiral galaxy, like our ...

Estimating the cloud's structure requires more than understanding ... According to their model, the Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk about 15,000 au across, offset by the ecliptic by about ...