A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

A newly discovered object, dubbed A11pl3Z, appears to be moving too fast and straight to have originated in the solar system.

The slower growth of gravitational wells and the accelerating expansion might share the same underlying cause.” In so many ...

For decades, string theory has promised to be the ultimate explanation for how our universe works. In this theory, all matter ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

That is the provocative assertion behind Professor Ginestra Bianconi’s latest work, which reframes gravity as an emergent phenomenon arising from the interplay of spacetime geometry, quantum ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

Scientists just confirmed a 30-foot void first detected inside the monument years ago. Here’s the technology that helped scientists find it—and what it may have been used for.

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

More by Phil Plait This article was originally published with the title “Cosmic Pareidolia” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 331 No. 3 (October 2024), p. 61 ...

Developer Big Boot Games announced the cosmic survival racing game, Meteora: The Race Against Spacetime, will launch for the ...