Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The ...

For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

Previous models explored the illusion, but this is the first time it has been actually recreated in a lab setting.

“If you wanted to take a picture of the rocket as it flew past, you would have to take into account that the light from ...

A team of astronomers used an "Earth-sized super telescope" to detect an object that emits no light, via gravitational ...

W HMIs suggest that there might soon be a dwindling of people in the world who remember what one looks like, at least among ...

Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...

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

A stronomers have broken two records in one thanks to an incredible serendipitous alignment of cosmic objects. It's the ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

First images of light from objects in the Universe are now recorded and split into thousands of colour components4MOST will investigate the formation ...