than 2.2 billion light-years away, for more than 13 hours. The gravity of the cluster’s trillion stars, plus dark matter, acts as a 2-million-light-year-wide “lens” in space. This “gravitational lens” ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

The deep cosmos is often viewed as a realm of chaotic beauty, yet occasionally, a signal breaks through the static that defies the established order of nature. The latest visual evidence emerging from ...

fleeting explosions that appear to signal the births of black holes, arrived at Kennedy Space Center today in preparation for an October launch. These enigmatic flashes, called gamma-ray bursts, are ...