The Euclid space telescope has, by chance, discovered its first Einstein ring, and it is absolutely stunning. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, this perfectly circular Einstein ring has allowed researchers ...

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's power.

When we observe a distant galaxy with our telescope, its light may encounter another galaxy on its way to us. The foreground galaxy acts like a magnifying lens, bending the travelling light rays due ...

Euclid blasted off on its six-year mission to explore the dark universe on 1 July 2023. Before the spacecraft could begin its ...

Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has ...