For thousands of years astrologers have claimed that disasters are foretold in the movement of the planets. Now a new study suggests they might be right. Scientists have discovered that the faint gravitational tug of the sun and moon can set off tremors deep underground in one of the world's most dangerous earthquake zones. Although the pull of planetary objects [...]

In September 1977, during the Joint Attack Weapons Systems Test (JAWS) at Fort Benning Georgia, the entire base witnessed a UFO invasion. As many as 1300 troops were involved in the event. Most were left with severe psychological trauma and “missing time” gaps. John Vasquez was courageous enough to undergo counseling, regression therapy, and hypnosis. Ft. Benning, GA – 1977 [...]

As the Christmas season draws nearer, here is a survey of some of the many fascinating animal associations with this very special time of year that occur in Yuletide legend and tradition. THE NIGHT WHEN ANIMALS SPEAK In many lands, there is an age-old folk belief that from midnight on Christmas Eve until dawn breaks on Christmas Day morning, animals [...]

In our Top 10 Space Stories of the Decade, the Discovery News #1 story was the direct imaging of planetary systems beyond our own. This endeavor was so profound as it not only opened up a new era for observing extrasolar planets, it ignited the imaginations of the public and scientists alike. The simultaneous discovery of three alien worlds orbiting [...]

I went to town to see the lighting of the Christmas tree on November 27th, 2009. I got a new 2.8 lens and wanted to take some photos in a low light setting. I shot about 100 photos that evening from about 5:00 p.m. to around 8:00 p.m. The next day when I was uploading them to my computer I [...]

Witness was driving to work from Ely, Nevada to an oil field and refinery in the Rail Road Valley. He stated that fellow employees had seen the same object in the sky earlier that evening.

The fragile truce between science and art came under strain today when common depictions of snowflakes threatened to divide the two cultures over the festive season. In the latest salvo between the warring factions, Christmas card manufacturers, advertising agencies and children's book publishers are accused of corrupting nature with “incorrect designer versions” of snowflakes that defy the laws of physics. [...]

Some rivalries die hard. Ham the American chimpanzee stirred up some Cold War ire when he became the first hominid in space in early 1961; now, scientists at the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy, the pride of early Soviet space science, want to send one of their 350 apes on a mission to Mars — with a robot overseer, [...]

This astonishing UFO video (below) was sent to us by a reader. It allegedly shows a UFO that has landed on Earth and a series of very clear images of what appear to be aliens of the ‘Grey’ variety. The aliens appear to be walking to and from the flying saucer, seemingly on some sort of research mission. Some appear [...]

See what could be the first professional footage of elusive Cross River gorillas, the most endangered subspecies of gorilla, filmed recently in Cameroon.They are remote, and live in the densest of jungle. Researchers and a film crew spent weeks searching for them, and finally captured them on video. They are Cross River gorillas, the rarest of the four subspecies of [...]