From iPhone symphonies to telescope concerts, Oklahoma art-rock band The Flaming Lips is getting weirder as it gets older. "There are no rules anymore," said Lips front man and enthusiastic imagineer ...

Horses’ skulls and flaming tar: the weird world of British local rituals The artist Ben Edge has spent years chronicling some of this sceptred isle’s oldest festivals.

A cosmic burning skull blazes ominously in this image taken by a university professor. The interstellar cloud has been dubbed the flaming skull nebula and is the glowing remains of a dying star larger ...

Oklahoma City experimental rock band The Flaming Lips made a 24-hour song, "7 Skies H3," which they're now letting fans stream for free. The group posted the song at midnight on Halloween. They're ...

It’s one thing to mount a big skull—human or animal—to the front of your car. Really, though, a good hood skull should breathe fire to truly inspire enmity or awe. Thankfully, when [Anthony] went ...

Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips will travel to a bunch of record stores in the Midwest this weekend, greeting fans and selling special repressings of some of the band's earliest recordings. The 1984 ...

Beginning this week, Flaming Lips boss Wayne Coyne will be traveling store-to-store hawking his latest mind-boggling creation: a reissue of the Oklahoma psych band’s debut 1984 EP pressed to vinyl and ...

When reader Kristen sent in this link, we thought it would be some silly fun. But after examining the photographic evidence for ourselves, we have to say this astronomical phenomenon bears a striking ...

Planetary nebulae are among my favorite objects in the sky. When a star a bit more massive than the Sun starts to die, it blows off a super solar wind of gas. As it ages more, this wind it blows ...