The luminous flying object cross the skies of a town in the province of Salta. After it vanished, the locality was plunged into darkness and telephone service was interrupted. Service was restored nine hours later. Yesterday at 2:00 a.m., a town in Salta with a population of nearly 20,000 residents known as Joaquin V. Gonzalez was left without electricity and [...]

When we think of spiders, us Brits tends to imagine the black and brown creatures that thrive in dry corners and give us a fright when we least expect it. Australians, the other hand, are privy to much more exciting sights, as these pictures of the 'peacock spider' prove. While it may be eight-legged like every other spider, this one [...]

A 13,000 year old meteorite from Mars, found in 1984 in the Allan Hills Region of Antarctica, is back in the news. The rock caused quite a stir when NASA announced during an August 1996 press conference that it contained evidence of past life on Mars. The first paper in Science described micrometer-sized carbonate deposits, shaped like pancakes, along tiny [...]

The authorities in Russia are treating the crash of an express train in which at least 25 people were killed as a possible act of terrorism. A crater has been found near the track, raising suspicions that a bomb may have been used to derail the train. The prosecutor-general has opened a criminal case on terrorism charges, Russian news agencies [...]

The RSPCA has hit out at pranksters who put a live sheep in a shopping trolley and wheeled it into a supermarket in south-east London. Two youths were recorded on CCTV carrying out the prank in Bexleyheath just after 0300 GMT on Friday. Staff at the Asda store have named the animal Rob. It is thought to have been rustled [...]

The death throes of the biggest star known to science have been observed by Europe's new space telescope, Herschel. The observatory, launched in May, has subjected VY Canis Majoris, to a detailed spectroscopic analysis. It has allowed Herschel to identify the different types of molecules and atoms that swirl away from the star which is 30-40 times as massive as [...]

We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.” – Dr Terence McKenna (1946-2004) There comes a time when even the most hardened UFO aficionado must accept that a single, narrow paradigm based on the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) is dangerously limited. Just in case there is still [...]

Aliens are already among us on Earth, say Bulgarian government scientists who claim they are in contact with them. Researchers for the country's Space Research Institute said they are currently working on deciphering a complex set of symbols sent to them. They claim the aliens are in the process of answering 30 questions posed to them by the Bulgarians. Lachezar [...]

On the evening of Sept. 19, eyewitnesses across the Island called the Dukes County communications center to report strange lights in the sky, lights that led many to think they were witnessing a UFO. Online, Twitter and Facebook networks were abuzz with Vineyarders’ speculation about it. Dozens of people, many fishing the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, said [...]

Recent reports have held up a remote Brazilian town-filled with blonde, blue-eyed twins-as evidence of Mengele's postwar attempts to add to the ranks of an Aryan “master race.” But research announced today says Cândido Godói's “Nazi twins” are nothing more than a myth. The outback town of about 7,000 has a twin rate nearly 1,000 percent higher than the global [...]