Images from the Hubble Space Telescope are often mind-bending in both their beauty and wealth of scientific wonder. And sometimes,…
A stunning new photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a nearly perfect Einstein Ring, an effect caused by gravitational…
After examining data from the Gaia Observatory, a team of researchers found 12 more examples of the rare phenomenon known…
It’s relatively rare for a magical object from fantasy stories to have a analog in real life. A truly functional…
A recent study shows how the Sun could be used as a gravitational lens to take direct images of nearby…
Nailing down cosmic expansion could depend on distant quasars, and the time it takes their light to reach us when…
If a solar system is a family, then some planets leave home early. Whether they want to or not. Once…
WFIRST ain't your grandma's space telescope. Despite having the same size mirror as the surprisingly reliable Hubble Space Telescope, clocking…
An international team of scientists has found a way to use white dwarf stars as gravitational lenses, which will allow…
A team of European astronomers recently conducted the first use of AI to identify 56 new gravitational lenses from a…