The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope aims to create the largest 3D map of the universe in the next six years. The ...

The final 3D atlas of the sky will help scientists study dark matter and dark energy, which make up 96 percent of the ...

Scientists assembled the first piece of the map, which includes 208 gigapixels, from 260 observations made between March 25 ...

Have you ever gazed up on a clear day, marvelling at the vast expanse of blue overhead, and wondered why the sky isn't, say, green or red? This seemingly simple question delves into the ...

A new 208-gigapixel cosmic map, capturing 132 square degrees of the Southern Sky, was unveiled, marking the start of a ...

The story centers on the residents of Kurouzu-cho, a fictional town under a spiral-related supernatural curse. Every few centuries or thousands of years, at random times, the whole population of ...

Mostly, what Rodriguez gets is a big blue blob. What his mentor, Michael Dahlen, wants is something more artistic: a spiral. Rodriguez is determined to get it right. So he rinses, gulps and spits ...

Their lineup hasn't changed since 2010, a superhuman feat for any hardcore band, though their new album came at a time when they were just trying to keep it together. Spiral in a Straight Line does ...

A magical, fairy tale-style woodland village of treehouses and hobbit homes in Asheville, NC, left homebuyers entranced when ...

On Oct. 13, 1773, a French astronomer named Charles Messier discovered the "whirlpool galaxy," also known as Messier 51, or ...

let’s try for one of the sky’s most distant naked-eye wonders: the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) in the constellation Andromeda. This huge spiral galaxy is larger than the Milky Way and sits some 2.5 ...