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

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

It is clear that human beings, throughout history, have always had a constant curiosity to discover everything that happens ...

Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

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 Einstein ring is formed by gravitational lensing, with the mass of galaxy NGC 6505 bending and magnifying the light from a more distant galaxy into a ring. NGC 6505 is a well-known galaxy only ...

An Einstein ring is light from a much more distant galaxy that bends in such a way as to perfectly encircle a closer object.

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

An Australian team has developed CRACO, an innovative radio system that detects cosmic flashes and pulses of energy in real ...

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

Bring the Moon and planets into closer view, spot stunning star clusters and observe distant galaxies and nebulas with your own eyes — you can even photograph your subject with a smart telescope.