Map of material distribution in the disk around protostar G358-MM1. The white “+” marks the location of the protostar. The contour lines indicate signal strength. The colors represent the ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young star and shown that the winding motion of the spiral pattern is conducive to planet ...

This flower-like image shows a plant that is not developing quite right. It comes from a study in which scientists at EMBL and the University of Sydney unearthed the molecular feedback loop that ...

The number of ways stars can find to die bizarre deaths will never cease to amaze me. And then some - a very few - are like R Sculptoris, a red giant on the thin hairy edge of death. And its death is ...

In some cases, a tree's trunk may have a spiral pattern on it because of how vines grew up it in the past. In others, the spirals may be related to the tree growing in an area with strong winds or ...

These spirals date back to at least World War II, and the reason they're still in use has everything to do with safety.