In a striking blend of modern design and engineering, a spiral staircase in Guangzhou has secured a place in the Guinness ...

Magnetism is usually taught as a story of straight lines, with field arrows marching neatly from north to south. In a lab at ...

You might see your career as separate from your internal world. Arthur Brook’s four path career model suggests, however, that ...

The “extra touches” to intricate webs - known as stabilimenta - enable the eight-legged hunters to find their next meal.

Hubble reveals a chaotic spiral galaxy whose close encounter with a neighbor has ignited a spectacular burst of star birth.

For ages, mapping the precise architecture of our home galaxy has been a challenge similar to attempting to draw a complete map of a vast, brightly lit city while standing trapped in the dense, hazy ...

Scientists have created the first-ever simulation that models every one of the Milky Way’s 100 billion stars, using AI to run galaxy-scale physics 100 times faster than previous methods. A new ...

Astronomy can be a difficult topic for newcomers. Like any scientific field, it has its own jargon and buzzwords—and terms with meanings that can be not only odd but downright counterintuitive. The ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo Cluster, a massive collection of galaxies in the Virgo constellation, was ...

WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral structure. But while it is impossible to get ...

A team of scientists accidentally visualized a hidden spiral in the Oort Cloud, and it might change everything we know about the solar system. A routine planetarium show at New York’s Hayden ...

What specific processes are responsible for planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of ...