When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's illustration of the Voyager 1 probe travelling into the Oort Cloud. | Credit: Science ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. This article is more than 5 years old. The center of our ...
An intriguing spiral structure surrounding a pulsing red giant star may be offering a preview of how the sun will behave at the end of its life. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array ...
A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that is ...
The exoplanet Kepler-1658 b is spiraling towards its star and will eventually crash into its surface, NASA says NASA illustration One of the first worlds discovered outside our solar system is caught ...
Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...
Are the spiral arms of galaxies evidence for gravitational waves? If not, what creates these arms? • Spiral arms are not evidence for gravitational waves. According to density wave theory, they are ...
Space scientists have captured a never-before-seen cosmic spiral. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a jaw-dropping ...
A strange spiral in the night sky was caught on camera above Norway in northern Europe this week, mystifying onlookers. One picture was snapped by an observer named Bettina Begtoft last week, just ...