Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive spiral disk galaxy, much larger than expected, in the early universe.

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits around the Earth, Webb ...

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

(For objects near the Sun, like planets, the tide's effect is largely ... Those "arms" resemble the elongated structures of a spiral galaxy, like our very own Milky Way. At an epic timescale ...

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

Previous research has suggested that the Oort cloud contains remnants of the solar system's planets ... cloud of debris may look like a mini galaxy with spiral arms. Researchers used a ...

For the planets, this influence is drowned ... But more interestingly, it has two spiral arms that almost make it look like a galaxy. The changes those oscillations make take a long time, but ...