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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 ...

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The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course, predicted to merge in approximately 5 billion years, forming a new galaxy dubbed Milkomeda. Supercomputer simulations suggest this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust goes through cycles, with periods of increased crust ...

Space scientists have captured a never-before-seen cosmic spiral. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a jaw-dropping ...

In a star system 2,600 light years away, a Jupiter-like exoplanet called Kepler-1658b is spiraling toward a fiery collision with its star, and it could shed light on the terrible fate that awaits our ...

Sky watchers may get a once-or maybe twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a comet brighten and dim, while appearing as if it has a pair of devil horns attached, as it makes its approach toward the ...

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 ...