It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.

A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

The stunningly beautiful galaxy cluster Abell 370 contains an astounding assortment of several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of gravity. Located approximately 4 billion light-years ...

NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles’ “Across the ...

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

James Webb telescope, technically advanced than Hubble telescope, has released new pictures of the colossal galaxy cluster ...

A distant galaxy, invisible for billions of years, has reappeared in a surprising form thanks to a rare cosmic illusion ...

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the ...

As predicted by Einstein, the first complete Einstein ring was found in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by gravitational lensing. This rare sight, caused by light from a distant galaxy ...