Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's ...

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The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

An Einstein ring is a circular appearance of light around a celestial object, caused by gravitational lensing. This occurs ...

Webb captured an Einstein ring formed by a distant galaxy's light bending around a closer one. This rare alignment magnifies ...

Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

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Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

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Here's how an innovative flat lens could solve these problems for satellites and space-based telescopes. Understanding ...