Europe's Euclid space telescope has detected a rare ring of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers have said. The ...

Gravitational lensing occurs when the gravity of a massive object, like a galaxy, warps the fabric of spacetime, bending the light from a more distant background object.

The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a small country have been increased to 1 in 43.

"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.

A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was going through preliminary tests in September 2023 when it captured ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of striking Earth in 2032.

Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has ...

A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...