From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens in the cosmos. It shapes planets and people, bends light into celestial ...

Astronomers at the University of Chicago, MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, ...

Glimpse worlds beyond our own with AG’s esteemed space expert and living legend, Fred Watson. Fred Watson is an honorary professor at Macquarie University and was Australia’s first Astronomer-at-Large ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. A magnifying glass may conjure up visions of a Victorian ...

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 ...

Created more than 400 years ago, the telescope is a tool that has allowed both amateurs and scientists alike to explore the sky in much more detail than they ever could with their naked eyes. All ...

Introduction Have you ever studied an everyday object through a magnifying glass—and been amazed at what you could see? Or have you ever noticed, for example in a swimming pool, that an object that is ...