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

Scientists have found a rare “Einstein ring” near Earth – stumbling ... light will bend around objects in space, so that they focus the light like a giant lens, with this effect being ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

The Big Ring, as the structure has ... Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO). These are giant, circular arrangements of galaxies ...

A team of astronomers, led by Yale University, has made an exciting discovery—a giant galaxy with a record-breaking nine ...

The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million lightyears from the earth.

Dec. 19, 2023 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings ...