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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Throughout January, four planets will line up in the night sky and be simultaneously visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere. Our celestial neighbours Venus and Mars as well as big ...

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

Luck has recently led to the discovery of several individual stars in extremely distant galaxies. 44 in a single galaxy, ...

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 ...