A strange blue spiral lit up the sky over Europe on Monday night (March 24), with residents of the UK and other countries ...

A team of physicists at UCLA has uncovered a strange and unexpected phenomenon—spiral patterns forming spontaneously on solid ...

A lab mistake led to self-forming spiral patterns on metal surfaces, revealing chemical-mechanical interactions.

We were fortunate in finding a crystal face which showed that these markings may form a rather perfect spiral. A photomicrograph of this is reproduced as Fig. 1.

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...

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 ...

The actual source of the spiral is the frozen exhaust plume of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which launched at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida around 5.50pm UK time yesterday. After ...

The light is reflected off the fuel, making it visible on Earth, and the spiral pattern is caused by the rocket's movement. Images of the spiral - shown here above Southwell, Nottinghamshire ...

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

As it does, it ejects any leftover fuel, which freezes instantly due to the altitude, and forms into a spiral pattern because of the rocket's movement. Light is then reflected off the frozen fuel ...