In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

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

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

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

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

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it's true ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was going through preliminary tests in September 2023 when it captured images of an Einstein Ring in a nearby galaxy.

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

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 ...

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