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

The Euclid space telescope has, by chance, discovered its first Einstein ring, and it is absolutely stunning. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, this perfectly circular Einstein ring has allowed researchers ...

This image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is from the Frontier Fields project, using natural gravitational lenses and ...

In the moments before the Big Bang, our universe was a hot ... says that two infinite, parallel cosmic strings passing each other would create a time machine by warping space-time.

Instead, the films will remain part of their own separate universe, which is now being referred to as DC Elseworlds. However, we will be waiting a while for it after it was delayed all the way to ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. When you ...

What is the structure of our physical reality? Physicists have long imagined space and time interweaving into “space-time”, the metaphorical fabric that underlies the cosmos. But there may be ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a crowning achievement, built on this legacy by precisely measuring the universe’s age—13.8 billion years—partly through observations of far-flung Cepheid stars. Compass ...

Donald and Melania Trump arrive at the White House ahead of the inauguration ceremony on Monday in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of ...

The "trick", which is taught in Japanese schools, involves drawing parallel lines to represent the digits you are multiplying together (e.g. vertically), with the second set of digits intercepting ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.