EPFL scientists have developed a new technique that lets researchers watch, with unprecedented sensitivity, how materials ...

Explore the warped spiral galaxy NGC 3718 and its neighbor NGC 3729 — a dynamic duo of deep-sky oddities in the constellation ...

The highly inclined barred spiral M108 in Ursa Major is sometimes called the Surfboard Galaxy. It's not to be missed.

The light that appeared in the skies over the Arctic might look otherworldly in nature, but it actually has a very terrestrial explanation. That’s because the spiral was created by what many ...

Time-lapse video taken from Croatia at around 4 p.m. EST, or 9 p.m. local time, shows the glowing light spinning across the sky in what many social media commentators likened to a spiral galaxy.

To him, it looked like a spiral galaxy’s plot of its pinwheel rotation, where the stars in the galactic disk all move at nearly the same speed, no matter if they appeared to travel toward or ...

The shapes can seem to appear out of nowhere: an undulating S-like spiral streaking across the European skies or a glowing orb trailing above the North American coast. Such strange light shows ...

Aliens, black holes and far-off galaxies were some of the suggested explanations for a spectacular spiral light which appeared in the skies over Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday. The phenomenon is ...

Slide 1 of 6, A spiral light set against a dark night sky framed by the eaves of two bright houses., The spiral light appeared in skies across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday End of image gallery ...

The bizarre spiral appeared above Alaska on April 15. (Image credit: Todd Salat/AuroraHunter.com) An ethereal whirlpool of light recently appeared in the night sky above Alaska, briefly stealing ...

The shapes can seem to appear out of nowhere: an undulating S-like spiral streaking across the European skies or a glowing orb trailing above the North American coast. Such strange light shows ...