Some 1,600 light-years away lies the "Skull Nebula." Formally called NGC 246, it's a cosmic object called a planetary nebula, which forms when a medium-sized star like the sun grows old and sheds ...

A shrieking skull, a cackling witch, a ghostly hand and other cosmic illusions haunt our skies. Which do you think is the spookiest object in the universe? When you purchase through links on our ...

Church of the Cosmic Skull is a twofold entity: a new religious movement who seek to free mankind from their material possessions and unify all living beings into a singular cosmic whole ...

Welcome to the latest cosmic coincidence on our favorite Red Frontier. In these dusty frames stood a lone, dark rock — oddly shaped, deeply pitted, and unmistakably resembling a human skull when ...

A mysterious but well-preserved hominid skull found nearly a century ago comes ... of natural radioactivity from sediment and cosmic rays. Based on these techniques, the team estimates the skull ...

Yet these same spacecraft also beam back patterns and images that we sometimes interpret as being familiar: perhaps a face in rock, or a colossal hand in a cosmic cloud. This tendency to see a ...