A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...

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

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

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

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 ...

It might be loading or has been removed. Einstein rings created by gravitational lensing are not just cosmic eye candy. This ring was captured during the Strong Lensing and Cluster Evolution ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in December 2021, has already provided humanity with breathtaking images of ...

The SKA project is poised to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos, with the potential to yield evidence on dark matter, dark ...