The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a distant spiral galaxy into a laboratory for extreme weather in space ...

A study of spiral patterns found in galaxies like our Milky Way could overturn the theory of how the spiral arm features form and evolve. Since 1960s, the most widely accepted explanation has been ...

A tree with a spiral trunk is growing in a city. - Wulingyun/Getty Images While it is one thing to see a bonsai or other trained tree growing in a spiral, it is far more surprising when you find a ...

Washington is full of beauty — summits, mountain lakes, shrub-steppe, coulees, the Salish Sea, the Pacific Ocean and forests — that beckons us outdoors. Along with this pronounced beauty comes a ...

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 ...

As stars like our Sun die, they swell to a huge size and shed much of the gas in their outer layers. This process seeds the galaxy with raw material for the next generation of stars and planets.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 26 (Jun. 30, 2009), pp. 10499-10504 (6 pages) Nacre is an exquisitely structured biocomposite of the ...