The Most Puzzling Reports Aren't in the Sky On a clear night over the ocean, military sensors track an unidentified object moving above the water. Moments later, the target appears to descend toward the sea. Operators attempt to follow it, but the...

Few phenomena in forensic history provoke as much unease as spontaneous human combustion — the unsettling idea that a living person can burst into flames from within, leaving behind little more than a pile of ash and a pair of unburned...

Investigating the Mysterious Miyake Events Hidden in Ancient Tree Rings In the summer of AD 774, people across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas went about their daily lives completely unaware that something extraordinary may have just happened above their heads. There were...

New geochemical research is reshaping our understanding of Earth’s atmosphere, revealing that one of the planet’s most essential elements may have vanished from the sky and become hidden deep within the Earth itself. For decades, scientists believed they had a fairly straightforward...

Search-and-Rescue Experts Say Many “Impossible” Recoveries May Reveal More About Human Survival Than the Supernatural On a cold morning in a remote wilderness area, search teams spent hours combing dense forests, steep ravines, and rocky slopes for a missing child. Rescue coordinators...

Scientists Are Unraveling Why Our Planet Shows So Few Scars From Cosmic Collisions If an alien civilization arrived in the Solar System and compared Earth with the Moon, it might conclude that something was deeply wrong. The Moon is covered with millions of...