Learn about the optical rotatum, a newfound structure of light that exhibits a spiral pattern linked with various parts of nature.

Beams of light that can be guided into corkscrew-like shapes called optical vortices are used today in a range of ...

A team of physicists at UCLA has uncovered a strange and unexpected phenomenon—spiral patterns forming ... to be a completely new type of chemical pattern formation. “I was trying to develop ...

The cause of the strange blue spiral is actually a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:48 p.m. EDT (1748 ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral ...

Once released, the second stage will eject any leftover fuel, which instantly freezes and forms into a spiral pattern because of the rocket's movement as it falls back to Earth. Light reflects off ...