As stars age, they often shed their skins, so to speak, casting off expansive shells of dust and gas into interstellar space. As stars age, they often shed their skins, so to speak, casting off ...

Astronomers using a powerful Chile-based telescope have released a rare image of a spiral shell of cosmic dust and gas surrounding a red giant star. The discovery marks the first time that scientists ...

ICHIKAWA, Chiba -- Spiral shells, which were an important food source for people in the Jomon Period (around 14,000 to 300 B.C.), have been found inhabiting the Sanbanze tidal flat here in Tokyo Bay ...

Beams of light that can be guided into corkscrew-like shapes called optical vortices are used today in a range of applications. Pushing the limits of structured light, Harvard applied physicists in ...

Ammonites are among the most common marine fossils from the age of the dinosaurs, but no one has found one like this before. It shows one of the swimming marine molluscs without its distinctive spiral ...