The James Webb Space Telescope is delivering a deluge of images and data to eager scientists and other hungry-minded people.…
The Webb Telescope can see distant galaxies incredibly well, even when they are gravitationally lensed by galactic clusters.
What’s better than a pair of galaxies observed by a pair of iconic space telescopes? The answer to that, according…
In the future, astronomers could use the Sun's gravity as a telescopic lens, and map the surfaces of nearby exoplanets.
Astronomers have been assessing a new machine learning algorithm to determine how reliable it is for finding gravitational lenses hidden…
The most distant measure of dark matter suggests the universe might have behaved differently in the past.
NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts is famous for supporting outlandish ideas in the astronomy and space exploration fields. Since being…
Have you ever seen wispy arcs and rings in astronomical images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories?…
Gravitational lensing provides an opportunity to see supernovae and other transients much farther than we normally can. A new research…
A star that sounds as if it came from "The Lord of the Rings" now marks one of the Hubble…