One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

A recent study reveals that the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 "pinwheel star" holds more mystery but is even less likely to be the ...

The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...

Common seashells found on a morning stroll in Sanya offer a beautiful example of handedness – or parity violation.

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in the Oort Cloud.

The latest documentary from Rodney Ascher ('Room 237,' 'A Glitch in the Matrix') revisits the harrowing life of locked-in ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

Snails aren't particularly picky eaters, but what about milk? Discover more about snails, their diet, and if milk is harmful ...

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

First-time buyers have been warned they face paying £350 more per month for their mortgage than they would have done five years ago, according to new research. A typical first-time buyer in Britain ...