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The fourth U.S. UAP release includes a 2-minute-57-second infrared video recorded by a military platform in 1996. The clip is attention-grabbing, but the archive record is the more important part:…
The United States’ public UAP record is not contained in one dramatic file release. It is being assembled piece by piece in the National Archives. The archive also needs to…
AARO’s May 2026 UAP release from the United States government is easy to summarize badly. A headline can call it proof of extraordinary craft, or it can call it nothing…
The most revealing Roman documents from Tongeren were never meant to survive. They were notes scratched into thin pieces of wood, used for business, administration and everyday messages, then discarded…
The desert can preserve a city in a way that a crowded capital cannot. In Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis, archaeologists have uncovered streets, homes, ovens, tools and written records from a…
On Al Sinniyah Island, the most important evidence may be the part no one can see yet. A team of researchers from Khalifa University has used high-resolution ground-penetrating radar to…
The skeleton was not found in an open-air cemetery. It was deep inside a cave, beneath several metres of water, far from the entrance and in a landscape that once…
Jerusalem’s ancient water system was not only about finding a spring. It was about controlling what happened when the water came too quickly and when the rain failed to arrive…
The desert north of Arabia has kept a Roman military story out of sight for almost two thousand years. Now three angular traces in the landscape are giving archaeologists a…
Astronomers have found a third giant planet around Beta Pictoris, one of the best-known young planetary systems near Earth. The discovery is striking because the planet was not first picked…
NASA is currently targeting August 30 for the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Florida. The date can move, as launch dates do, but the mission is…
A new Nature study mapped 432 earthworks in southwest Amazonia and estimates that more than 20,000 may exist across the wider Aquiry cultural landscape.
NASA says a new four-spacecraft mission has completed an early test that could make one of the hardest parts of space-weather forecasting much more precise: estimating when a solar eruption…
For nearly three decades, 1998 SH2 looked like a fairly ordinary near-Earth asteroid. It was discovered in 1998, catalogued, and followed through a 4½-year orbit around the Sun. Then, during…
A star being torn apart by a black hole is already an unusual sight. In this case, the black hole was in an even stranger place: more than 30,000 light-years…
Messier 87 is already famous for a photograph most people have seen: the Event Horizon Telescope image of the black hole at its center. Yet the black hole’s most dramatic…
A team of Mexican and Slovenian archaeologists has reported the discovery of a Maya city in the northern reaches of Mexico’s Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, a dense forested landscape already known…
What is in the fifth U.S. UAP release? The pages do not settle what was in the sky, but they show what government agencies were told, what their files retained,…
On Wednesday, August 12, the Moon’s shadow will sweep across a narrow stretch of the Northern Hemisphere. Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic, Spain and a small corner of Portugal…
António Ambrósio, an independent researcher who describes himself as trained in Egyptology through Barcelona’s Institut d’Estudis del Pròxim Orient Antic at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is promoting a claim…
Michael Guillén, a physicist who has taught at Harvard University and worked as a science editor at ABC News, has pushed a provocative claim into the public bloodstream: that the…
GPS is commonly treated as a way to find a route or track a delivery. In critical infrastructure, its quieter function is often more consequential: it distributes precise time that…
Jupiter dominates the Solar System’s architecture. At about 318 times Earth’s mass and orbiting far beyond Mars, it acts as a gravitational gatekeeper, tugging on asteroids and comets that might…
If Earth disappeared instantaneously, the first thing that would not happen is a crash. The Moon is not “hanging” over Earth. It is in constant free fall, moving sideways fast…