The bronze artifacts may have served as coffin handles for a burial in what is now Israel, but the true nature of the find ...

Almost five millennia ago, hundreds of engraved, disc-shaped stones were deposited in a giant pit at the Neolithic Vasagård site on the small Danish island of Bornholm.

The figures illustrate the revealed sequential disk formation in this study: thick disk only galaxies dominate the early epochs (bottom panel), while galaxies exhibiting both thin and thick disks ...

Carved out of a block of basaltic olivine lava, the disc-shaped stone measures 3.6 mattress in diameter and weighs a massive 24 tonnes. It is recreated in stunning detail on the dial of the Fuego ...

The comet-like proplyd, 177-341 W is a planet-forming disc that is evaporating in the Orion Nebula. (Image credit: ESO/M. L. Aru et al.) In the Orion Nebula lies a host of bizarre, teardrop-shaped ...