We largely think of the world in four dimensions — time and the three spatial dimensions. But a fifth dimension might actually solve this longstanding mystery.

A major survey verifies 3,500 gravitational lenses, offering new tools to map dark matter and track cosmic expansion.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Image of the galaxy NGC 6505: the Einstein ring created by this gravitational lens can be seen in ...

Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in comparison to the power of nature’s own “cosmic magnifying glasses” – strong ...

Around 37,000 citizen scientists combed through 430,000 images to help an international team of researchers to discover 29 new gravitational lens candidates through Space Warps, an online ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true. Space is stretching faster today than in the past, and the precise ...

A team of astronomers led by Arjen van der Wel from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has found the most distant gravitational lens yet — a galaxy that, as predicted by Albert Einstein’s ...

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The European Space Agency has released the first major batch of data from its “dark universe” telescope Euclid. What’s inside could change our understanding of dark matter and the expansion of the ...

Tania Barone receives funding from the Australian Research Council for research with gravitational lenses. Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most ...