The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a rare "Einstein ring," revealing two distant galaxies in an optical illusion ...

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

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The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense within the context of a major merger." ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...

After performing more than 123 hours of research over six years, talking to eight eye-care professionals, and testing dozens of comparable frame-and-lens pairings from 12 retailers since 2017 ...

Euclid's first data release offers a breathtaking glimpse into our universe, revealing over 26 million galaxies and ...

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Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

The year 1905 was also when Einstein wrote a series of papers that changed our view of the universe forever. On the surface, he seemed to have been leading a pleasant, quiet life until then.