We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of ...

Wherever we look in the Universe we see spiral galaxies. 70% of all galaxies today have this spiral structure that show up in their stars and their gas that’s used to make more s ...

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The objects of a transition curve on a railway ... Special attention is given to the clothoid (or Glover's spiral) and the mathematical work required to elucidate this curve is carefully and ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it’s so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful tools is something called 21cm radiation. Hydrogen, the most abundant ...

A pink glow beckons. Visitors remove their shoes and enter a spiral maze of salt and mirrors. In another room, some visitors ...

Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, or M42 – the 42nd object in Messier’s catalog – while others were star clusters such as the Pleiades, or M45. A third category – ...

A metal detectorist has unearthed an ancient bronze spoon that Iron Age people may have used to forecast the future ...

They rushed to flee the fires in Southern California, grabbing their belongings and their pets. They took the precious and ...