A mysterious spiral of doom — okay, just a spiral-shaped galaxy — has been captured in a new image by the Hubble Space Telescope. The object belongs to an uncommon class of galaxy called lenticular ...

Remember that totally shareable animated graph that showed global temperatures spiraling out of control in a terrifyingly literal way? If you enjoyed that sciencey Eye of Sauron, you’re in for a treat ...

NASA has shared a mind-blowing image of a spiral galaxy – and it has a secret meaning. On Sunday, the US space agency took to Twitter to share an image of a stunning galaxy known as Messier 51 (M51), ...

Visual acuity improves after watching a rotating spiral pattern. Credit: C&EN / Shutterstock / Psychol. Sci. Staring at a rotating spiral pattern produces a hypnotic effect; the pattern seems to ...

The sprawling and hypnotically symmetrical 'whirlpool galaxy' Messier 51 is so large and so bright that even at its vast distance away, somewhere between 23 and 31 million light-years from Earth, even ...