The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch ... but sometimes it needs a little help. Gravitational lensing can magnify distant objects, sometimes distorting the light to produce so-called ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured a stunning image of a distant quasar, RX J1131-1231, through gravitational lensing. This phenomenon, caused by a nearby elliptical galaxy ...

ESA's Euclid mission is exploring the "dark universe." The space telescope's latest images offer fascinating new insights.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope ... six times in a single image. The arrangement was created thanks to an effect first proposed by Albert Einstein in 1915 called "gravitational lensing ...

It can seem like JWST arrived out of nowhere, but the telescope has been the collective effort of tens of thousands of scientists over decades. Here are some of this year’s best new images.

Why it's so special: What are the smallest stars? A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed free-floating, Jupiter-size objects that ...

One of its primary missions will be to measure something called weak gravitational lensing.The light from distant galaxies gets slightly bent on its way to us due to the relatively small ...