A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

Last fall, a Swedish man spotted something in a marsh on Oland, Sweden’s second-largest island. At first, he thought the circular object—found lying on the ground near a construction pit—might be a ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...

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

The role of gravitational lensing in forming an Einstein ring Gravitational lensing happens when a massive object—a galaxy ... allowing us to see their shape, size, and other characteristics ...

I went to Oregon to learn how physics can change your putt and your attitude, checking out the big picture on eliminating ...

It's not an actual object, but a warped, mind-bending optical illusion. "The picture features a rare cosmic phenomenon — an Einstein ring. What appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is ...

After all the space drama, astronomers have figured out what that "city killer" asteroid actually looks like: a flat, ...

A group of international researchers have developed a way to use sound to generate different types of wave patterns on the ...

One of the structures was a ring with 24 tubes connected to speakers ... the first step in exploring how water waves can be shaped to move objects, with many potential applications in the future ...