Einstein predicted the existence of gravitationally-warped rings of light in 1915. Now, a new one has been discovered just a ...

Astronomers have hailed the incredible discovery of an Einstein ring, a phenomenon that occurs when the light from a distant ...

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

A CHILLING simulation video has revealed what it would look like if ‘city-killer’ Asteroid 2024 YR4 hit Earth. The space rock ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...

A rare Einstein ring spotted near our galaxy offers a unique chance to test Einstein’s general relativity and study the ...

Solar masses are a unit of measurement used in astronomy to express the mass of other celestial objects in comparison to the ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...