With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

Scientists have discovered a new way to probe the interiors of neutron stars by using gravitational waves to turn them into ...

Euclid, a space telescope on a mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, has already made a stunning discovery: a perfectly formed Einstein ring hidden in a well-known galaxy.

It is a cosmic phenomenon that elegantly showcases the warping of space-time, a consequence of gravity predicted over a ...

A new detector to home in on the mystery of dark matter is getting closer to deployment. At the University of Southampton in ...

Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

A rare Einstein ring spotted near our galaxy offers a unique chance to test Einstein’s general relativity and study the ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

Euclid space telescope sent some images back to Earth during an early testing phase. While reviewing the pictures, astronomer ...

A new study proposes a way to use weak gravitational lensing data to test the long-held Cosmological Principle of 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.