This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years ...

"The disk, when viewed from a distance, would appear as a spiral structure with two twisted arms," the authors wrote. Those "arms" resemble the elongated structures of a spiral galaxy, like our ...

The Milky Way's tidal forces may be shaping the Oort Cloud's inner structure into a spiral shape.

Lenticular galaxies are sort of blobby and formless, while spiral galaxies have defined spiral arms curving out from their centers. The grand design spiral galaxy is the most magnificently ...

At the edge of our solar system, a host of large, icy bodies make up the Oort cloud, which appears to sport two spiral arms reminiscent of a disk-shaped galaxy. New research founded upon a simulation ...

This image combines four different wavelengths of light to reveal UGC 5460's central bar of stars, winding spiral arms, and bright blue star clusters. Also captured in the upper left-hand corner ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, star clusters and a possible supernova "imposter".