Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope is a constant source of beautiful pictures of the wonders of space, and this week’s Hubble image shows a wonderful example of a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, ...

A mysterious striped signal from the Crab Pulsar may finally be explained by a delicate balance between plasma effects and gravitational lensing.

In the first image NASA released from the Webb telescope, some galaxies look like strings of stretched taffy. That's because the universe itself has altered our view of the deep cosmos. This warped ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured three copies of the same distant galaxy cluster mid supernova through the quirky natural phenomenon of gravitational lensing. Credit: ESA / NASA / CSA / P.

Astronomers propose a new method to detect hidden supermassive black hole pairs using warped starlight, offering early clues before gravitational wave signals arrive.

In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 and it seems to be smiling You can make out its two orange eyes and white button nose ...

Gravity is obviously pretty important. It holds your feet down to Earth so you don’t fly away into space, and (equally important) it keeps your ice cream from floating right out of your cone! We’ve ...

It’s hard to comprehend the scale of the universe. It’s difficult to imagine even the size of the entire solar system, let alone our galaxy. And our galaxy is just one among billions in the universe.