As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has potentially identified the universe’s first stars, formed shortly after the Big Bang, through an Einstein ring. This groundbreaking discovery includes 44 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light—of ...

Day 7 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Warped View Through an Einstein Ring. You are seeing two galaxies here, one in front of the other. The more distant spiral galaxy appears warped ...

There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light—of galaxies and planets and brightly hued moons. The people who explore ...