If the background galaxy, the lensing galaxy ... This one is particularly special, because it’s so close to Earth and the alignment makes it very beautiful.” Studying the gravitational ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

High-energy particles rain down on Earth constantly, but scientists have now detected a doozy: a neutrino blasting in from ...

Euclid, the European Space Agency’s dark Universe detective, has made an astonishing discovery – right in our cosmic backyard ...

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy.

Gravitational lensing occurs when the gravity of a massive object, like a galaxy, warps the fabric of spacetime, bending the light from a more distant background object.

A “ghost particle” discovered by a detector in the Mediterranean carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

For over a century, astronomers have searched the skies for a perfect example of a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein: a ...

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet’s history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.