ESA’s Euclid mission mapped 26 million galaxies, revealing galaxy shapes, cosmic structures, and gravitational lenses ...

More than 500 galaxies seen in today’s release seem to experience strong lensing, where the galaxy’s gravity warps the light of another behind it. This is manifested in the panoramic pictures ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A bright star located about 10,000 light-years from Earth overlaps with the bright core of a ...

The galaxy, on the other hand, is about 45 million light years away. The star and galaxy are not the only details separated in this image. It is also the product of two different Hubble Space ...

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which astronomers have already used to find hundreds of strong gravitational lenses ...

There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much ... I thought of when looking at today's image of the Milky Way Galaxy's center. The main image showcases ...

A tiny red speck has set a date on an important era in the Universe's early history and given astronomers a surprising insight into the "cosmic dawn".

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in ...

The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...