Physicists and astronomers have long believed that the universe has mirror symmetry, like a basketball. But recent findings from the University of Michigan suggest that the shape of the Big Bang might ...

(Space.com) Astronomers have discovered the universe's most ancient spiral galaxy yet, a cosmic structure that dates back roughly 10.7 billion years, a new study reveals. The galactic find, discovered ...

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 ...

About half of all spiral galaxies appear to be rotating clockwise and the other half counterclockwise. The direction a galaxy rotates depends on your perspective. As an analogy, consider a spinning ...

Astronomers have discovered a three-armed spiral galaxy dating back nearly 11 billion years -- much older than similarly structured objects that are common in the modern universe. The discovery was so ...

Almost 30 years have passed since the discovery of concentric (target) and spiral waves in the spatially extended Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. Since then, rotating spirals and target waves have ...

Astronomers have discovered the universe's most ancient spiral galaxy yet, a cosmic structure that dates back roughly 10.7 billion years, a new study reveals. The galactic find, discovered by ...