Gravitational lenses have been used previously to resolve individual stars in the distant Universe. Using the microlensing of ...

Scientists from an international team have used data from the German-British GEO600 detector to study a nearby neutron star ...

Uncover the mystery of Omega Centauri: a stellar-mass black hole is responsible for the fast movement of nearly ten million stars in the largest star cluster of the Milky Way.

Taking advantage of a cosmic 'double lens,' astronomers resolved more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its light dates back to when the universe was only half its present age.

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

Observations with the South Pole Telescope have revealed an independent addition to the biggest problem in cosmology.

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

Prof. Wendy Freedman, one of world’s leading cosmologists, has been awarded the National Medal of Science, the country’s ...

UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant "centaur" that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.