A strange swirl in the sky seen over much of Britain and Europe this week wasn’t the result of alien activity but rather a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The UK’s Met Office, which monitors weather ...

Why it's so special: What if a galaxy had only one spiral arm? Our solar system resides on the outskirts of one of the Milky Way galaxy's estimated four spiral arms, according to Space.com, but not ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. "Peculiar" spiral galaxy Arp 184 or NGC 1961 as captured by NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope. | ...

Just days after it spotted a "bat shadow," the Hubble Space Telescope has found a "feathered spiral" galaxy in deep space. The image, released by NASA and the European Space Agency, is of a galaxy ...

SpaceX launched a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office from Florida on Monday afternoon. As the rocket flew into nighttime over Europe, it left an unusual glowing spiral in the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of J2345-0449 using its HST WFC3 UVIS and IR channel filters. Credit: Bagchi et al, Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society/DOI 10.1093/mnras/staf229 ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...

A SpaceX rocket launch from Florida on Monday afternoon produced a dazzling display in the night sky above Europe, leading to some people asking Elon Musk what they were witnessing. The rocket ...

Where it is: 190 million light-years distant in the constellation Camelopardalis, the giraffe. When it was shared: April 29, 2025 Why it's so special: What if a galaxy had only one spiral arm? Our ...

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