The Oort Cloud: The Distant Shell of Comets We Have Never Seen Directly
The Oort Cloud is one of the strangest places in the Solar System because it has never been seen directly. Astronomers infer its existence from the paths of long-period comets:…
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Ivan Petricevic
Ivan Petricevic is an investigative journalist and researcher with more than a decade of experience covering ancient history, UAP phenomena, space, and science. He writes about space, science, and history for Večernji list and has appeared as an expert on Discovery Channel and History Channel. He founded Curiosmos, where he reports from primary sources, archaeological research, and field investigations.
Cuneiform Tablets and Destruction Layers Reconstruct a Mesopotamian Siege
At Kurd Qaburstan in northern Mesopotamia, archaeologists are finding the kind of evidence that allows a destroyed city to be read from several directions at once. Cuneiform tablets, administrative sealings,…
Two Neolithic Tombs Found Side by Side in Ireland
Two different kinds of Neolithic tomb have been identified beside one another near Maree in County Galway. One is a court tomb, a long stone-built monument with an open space…
A Rich Iron Age Cemetery Near Chelmsford Reveals Who Held Power Before Rome
Near Chelmsford, archaeologists have been studying a large Iron Age cemetery that spans the years before and after the Roman conquest of Britain. The site contains more than 100 cremated…
KONA BLUE: What AARO’s Record Actually Says About the Proposed Program
KONA BLUE sounds like the name of a completed retrieval operation. AARO’s own record is narrower: it describes a proposed sensitive program that was never approved or formally established. The…
Fourth U.S. UAP Release: What the 1996 Infrared Video Shows
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 U.S. UAP Archive Is Still Growing: Inside NARA’s Record Group 615
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: What the Official Imagery Tables Actually Show
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…
Roman Writing Tablets Reveal Ordinary Life in Ancient Belgium
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…
A Byzantine City Preserved Beneath the Sands of Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis
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…
Radar Maps Possible Lost Structures on Al Sinniyah Island
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 8,000-Year-Old Skeleton Hidden Deep Inside a Yucatán Cave
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 2,800-Year-Old Dam Shows How Judah Managed Drought and Flash Floods
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…
Three Roman Desert Camps May Reveal a Hidden Campaign Against Nabataea
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…
Webb Found a Hidden Planet in Beta Pictoris By Reading Its Atmosphere
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 Targeting an August Launch for Roman. Here’s What the Telescope Will See
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…
New Amazon Earthworks Study Reveals the Scale of the Aquiry Landscape
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’s PUNCH Mission Predicted a Solar Storm Arrival Within 30 Minutes
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…
A Near-Earth Object Called an Asteroid for Decades Turns Out to Be a Comet
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 Black Hole Far from Its Galaxy’s Center Was Caught Tearing Apart a Star
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…
Chandra Has Tracked the Jet of M87’s Black Hole as It Changes
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…
Minanbé: Archaeologists Find an Intact Maya City Deep in the Calakmul Reserve
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…
Fifth U.S. UAP Release: What the Government Files Show
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,…
The August 12 Total Solar Eclipse: Where to See It—and Why NASA Is Flying Through Its Shadow
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…