Watch Video at the source Like a modern-day Icarus, this newfound comet learned the hard way what happens when you fly too close to the sun.Amateur astronomer Alan Watson discovered the small comet while pouring over pictures taken in December 2009 by NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory. The space agency's orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) then witnessed the bright, [...]

With the help of enhanced imagery and an expert in Elizabethan script, archaeologists are beginning to unravel the meaning of mysterious text and images etched into a rare 400-year-old slate tablet discovered this past summer at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America. Digitally enhanced images of the slate are helping to isolate inscriptions and illuminate fine details [...]

We always love a good hotel ghost story here at HotelChatter so on this cold day, kick back and get spooked. Four ghosts have reportedly taken up residence at the historic Hotel Bethlehem but instead of conducting exorcisms or ghost evictions, the hotel has embraced these “guests” by offering up a special hotel room that's supposed to witness all the [...]

Yahoo was pulled into the growing row between China and Google today, as its Chinese partner slammed Yahoo's statements supporting Google, The move comes as it is claimed the search giant has stayed silent about cyber-attacks. Yahoo knew it had been a target of sophisticated Chinese cyber-attacks on U.S. firms before Google alerted the company to them, but remained silent [...]

In the more than 60 years since his death, Nikola Tesla has never ceased to be a fascinating, mysterious figure dwelling somewhere outside the borders of history as it is understood by the unseeing masses. While we as a 21st century civilization continue to reap the benefits of his outsized genius, Tesla has yet to be given the recognition he [...]

Hound of the Cannock hills? A wave of paranormal and mysterious episodes in the town have helped usher in a new decade of spooky sightings, with readers encountering UFOs and wild wolves in the first week of the year. The area has a long standing association with paranormal activity – with websites across the World recording spooky incidents in the [...]

Werewolves in Bonner's Ferry? Something a little different to start off my third year with the Journal. When Trish first asked me to do this column, it was after she learned of my planned book of areas ghost stories and accounts of unusual phenomenon. In other words, the material I had was finite and indeed, I would be close to [...]

The legend may be back, just as mysterious and dark, to stalk the unsuspecting. Until last weekend, Cesar Garcia and brother-in-law Juan Miranda saw their life near Horizon City as secluded and peaceful. They moved to the area from Chicago three years ago, but have suddenly been beset by strange and unexplained occurrences. Their rabbits went into hiding, their cat [...]