The universe rarely fails to amaze. One of its latest surprises—nicknamed the “Einstein zig-zag”—reveals a stunning ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured this stunning image of a galaxy cluster so massive that it serves a gravitational ...

Now, Slava Turyshev, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, is trying to harness one of these gravitational lenses closer to home, using our sun. In a new paper posted to the pre-print server ...

The galaxy cluster Abell 370, a gravitational lens 4 billion light-years away. Image: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI) A light source in space originally believed to be a galaxy ...

Astronomers have found an incredible gravitational lens. Thanks to a chance alignment, a foreground cluster of galaxies has magnified the light of not one, but seven background galaxies ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Imaging exoplanets with the solar gravitational lens (SGL) faces major technical challenges, including solar corona noise, the sun’s quadrupole moment, and ...

Credit: ESA Hiding amongst all those millions of galaxies are rare phenomena called gravitational lenses or “Einstein rings,” named as such because they prove Albert Einstein’s prediction ...

This sparkling stunner brings astronomers one step closer to examining Cosmic Dawn, when the universe was just a few million ...

The European Space Agency said Tuesday that the James Webb Space Telescope has captured its most detailed image of a single ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the remote galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a red arc that ...