In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

Astronomers now think Earth and our Milky Way galaxy might be sitting in a giant, mysterious “cosmic void”—a huge region of ...

This July, skywatchers across Southern California are in for a remarkable sight as the crescent Moon and Mars converge in a ...

Cosmic illusion revealed: Gravitational lens magnifies supernova by Tokyo University Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope (CFHT) image of the field before the supernova.

Different as they are, both discoveries rely on the cosmic optical illusion Mandl proposed and Einstein described, but it may the dark-matter map that illustrates the power of that illusion most ...

This is, of course, an optical illusion — a rare and mind-boggling phenomenon called superluminal motion, which occurs when particles come very close to moving at the speed of light.In this case ...

IN 1936, Einstein predicted a cosmic optical illusion — but he thought we'd never be able to see it. Since, astronomers have bore witness to several of these rare tricks.

The angle between Earth and Saturn will briefly create something of a cosmic illusion, in which the planet’s rings look invisible from our vantage point. IE 11 is not supported.

The cosmic wisdom shining from the alignment of Mercury and Jupiter settles on matters of social influence. People are savvier than ever these days to illusions and delusions of identity. Those who ...