Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us.

Hubble discovers Comet 117P/2003 S2 changing its spin patterns unexpectedly, challenging scientific understanding of how ...

For decades, astronomers have looked to the outer reaches of the cosmos for answers to our most fundamental questions: Where did we come from? What lies beyond? And how does it all work? A recent ...

(Nanowerk News) An analysis of more than 200,000 spiral galaxies has revealed unexpected links between spin directions of galaxies, and the structure formed by these links might suggest that the early ...

This image shows an all-sky mollweide map of the quadrupole in the distribution of galaxy spin directions. In this image, the different colors mean different statistical strength of having a ...