A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Astronomers discover a low-mass dark object through gravitational lensing and multiple radiotelescopes across Earth.

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this familiar force remains one of the biggest puzzles in physics.

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot. But how can the sun be a telescope? The sun is not a mirror, but it is a lens. And we ...

According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions ...

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The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. An account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and ...