Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Last month, the European Space Agency (ESA) released a huge dataset from its space telescope Euclid. The release featured ...

More information: Ewoud Wempe et al, On the detection and precise localization of merging black holes events through strong gravitational lensing, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of its massive gravity.

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into the deepest cosmos and reveal new insights about the early universe. It's ...

Data-driven Urban Science and Astrophysics; Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science; Interstellar Medium Physics; Particle Dark Matter and Particle Astrophysics; Strong ...

Using an AI model, researchers were able to find and catalogue 500 galaxies with strong gravitational lensing in this first batch of data alone, doubling the total found to date. “The statistics ...

Gravitational lensing is one of the strongest pieces of ... The amount of bending matches how strong the gravitational field is, not just how much visible matter is present. Lieu’s model shows ...