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

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

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

The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, the final boundary between us and the reaches of interstellar space. But it's ...

As the planets formed ... 15,000 AU – featuring not one but two spiral arms. This structure makes the Oort Cloud resemble a miniature, oddly shaped galaxy, in contrast to the typical spherical ...

The researchers believe the spiral is likely a result of the Galactic tide, which describes the gravitational pull that comes from a variety of sources in the galaxy, such as stars and black holes.

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 ...

The solutions to these mysteries could reveal much about how the Andromeda Galaxy — which is the closest large spiral galaxy to us ... a bit like moons forming around a planet. However, another team ...

The universe is vast, mysterious, and breathtakingly beautiful. From the glow of distant galaxies to the quiet elegance of ...

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