A newly discovered galaxy is challenging what scientists thought they knew about galactic collisions. Located 567 million ...

The discovery of a galaxy sporting nine concentric rings of stars sheds light on how such ring galaxies form and evolve 1. In a pond hit by a rock, circular ripples spread outwards from the impact ...

"There's a very narrow window after the impact when a galaxy like this would have so many rings." So-called ring galaxies are extremely rare in the Universe, and they are thought to be the result of a ...

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...

The Einstein ring that Euclid spotted is located in the galaxy NGC 6505. It is only a hop, skip, and a jump away from Earth ...

It’s so rare that less than 1% of galaxies have an Einstein ring, O’Riordan said. There are between 100 and 1,000 Einstein ring-like objects known, but only a few tens of them have been ...

A ninth ring appeared in data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The sheer number of rings makes the Bullseye stand out from other galaxies. “Previous observations of other galaxies show ...

Veil Nebula: A small section of the Veil Nebula is visible in the image, captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope. Rings Of ...

Circle of light around galaxy 500 million light years away will allow experts to test famous physicist’s general theory of ...