A tiny object half a universe away, a scar in a stream of stars circling the Milky Way, and an unusual star cluster in a ...

Citizen scientists will look for warped spacetime using data from the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope.

A recently released image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a distant galaxy that has been warped and distorted by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. This phenomenon allows scientists ...

With the launch of Space Warps, a new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, you can now join in the search to find rare and elusive strong gravitational lenses in never-before-seen ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass. This monster elliptical galaxy appears in the Hubble images ...

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Astronomers have detected the most distant and brightest "space laser," a megamaser, originating from a galactic collision ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of Science, will add an unprecedented amount of cosmological data to the study of ...

White dwarfs are the remnants of stars like the Sun. They also provide some of the best means to measure large distances in the Universe if they explode as “type Ia” supernovae. All of those ...

The Bullet Cluster, originally detected using weak lensing NASA/CXC/CfA/M.Markevitch et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.; Lensing Map: NASA ...

Bending of light by dark matter is a vital observational tool in cosmology. So if you are going to use cosmology to accuse financial institutions of a "blind faith in maths", you might at least google ...