An Einstein ring is light from a much more distant galaxy that bends in such a way as to perfectly encircle a closer object.

Einstein rings help scientists study dark matter and cosmic expansion. Euclid will find thousands more lenses to map the ...

Europe's Euclid space telescope has detected a rare ring of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers have said. The ...

An international team of astronomers has investigated a newly detected Type II supernova designated SN 2024jlf. The new study ...

How does the universe work? What are black holes, neutron stars, and dark energy? This video attempts to explain astrophysics ...

"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...

One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...

A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 ...