An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has upended existing theories about how galaxies formed in the early ...

Professor Im Joo Rhyu, director of the Korea University Graduate Program for Convergence & Translational Biomedicine and ...

Walmart has been awarded a patent illustrating ‘disc-shaped’ robots that use sensors and cameras to transport and navigate shopping carts throughout stores. This application comes two months ...

Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...

Named REBELS-25, the galaxy is disc-shaped and strongly rotation-oriented, with spiral arms and an elongated central bar just like the Milky Way. The scientists made the discovery with the Atacama ...

It probably experienced mergers that were gentle enough to let the galaxy maintain its spiral disk shape. Additionally, the gas flowing into the galaxy must have aligned well with its rotation ...

A team of researchers from the Southwest Research Institute have found that the inner part of the unique formation might have a spiral disk shape, similar to a small galaxy. This vast expanse ...

At the edge of our solar system, a host of large, icy bodies make up the Oort cloud, which appears to sport two spiral arms reminiscent of a disk-shaped galaxy. New research founded upon a simulation ...