The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual ...

A dazzling cosmic swirl, NGC 3507 shines alone in this Hubble image, though it secretly belongs to a dynamic galactic duo.

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...

Some users even speculated that the spiral could be the work of aliens! Space.com can reveal the identity of the object behind this spectacular event, and unfortunately (possibly reassuringly ...

But as humanity rapidly increases the number of objects propelled into space ... experts said the phenomena of the jellyfish and spiral are distinct. The eerie bat signal-like spiral following ...

The Oort cloud — the mysterious shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system — might sport a pair of spiral arms that ...

While Earth and the other planets in the solar system are kept in their orbit due to the sun’s gravity, the orbit of objects within the Oort cloud is tilted by the Galactic tide. Gravitational forces ...

(For objects near the Sun ... "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 ...

The spiral shape is created by the path that the rocket’s upper stage takes as it falls back to Earth, and whether it creates a visible object in the sky is to do with the altitude at which the ...