Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral ...

around the same time that our own galaxy was beginning to take shape. Wellesley College astronomer Lamiya Mowla is co-lead author of the paper, which was published Wednesday, Dec. 11, in Nature.

An advanced alien civilization may want to cruise around the galaxy, and the best way to do that is by steering their binary star system, a researcher proposes in a new paper. Long-lived civilizations ...