The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier On March 27, scientists bid farewell to the Gaia telescope, bringing to ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope ... with stars, black holes, dust clouds, dark matter, and a few comparatively tiny planets. ACT’s mission was to map this Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB ...

The James Webb Space Telescope photographs a rare Einstein ring, a cosmic deception formed by gravitational lensing, giving ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

One of the strangest facts in computer science is that it's really hard to generate true random numbers. For a computer, ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.