Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

With Katy Perry’s space odyssey this week and Donald Trump’s expressed plan to plant the American flag on Mars, we look at 12 ...

Dedicated science fiction fans will remember that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry 'created' Andromeda and Earth: The Final ...

When the Milky Way rose over the hills to the east ... s rings that professional astronomers dismissed as illusory—until Voyager reached Saturn and confirmed that the spokes were real.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

The image of Zhúlóng shows its spiral arms, an old central bulge and a large star-forming disc, which resembles the Milky Way. (Image Credit: © NASA/CSA/ESA, M ...

Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first billion years of cosmic history, galaxies are thought to be small, chaotic ...