Astronomers hope Gliese 486 b, which is only 26.3 light years from Earth, could hold the key to discovering extraterrestrial life on other exoplanets in the future
Pauline Tremble, 54, of Irvine, Scotland, said her eBay bargain-hunting husband Andy looked "so pleased with himself until he saw my face" - he plans to use it to play golf
The colossal space rock nicknamed Apophis, or the 'God of Chaos', was first discovered in 2004 and is set to come within 10,471,577 miles of Earth at 1am on Saturday
Since we first took to the skies at the beginning of the 20th Century there have been a number of baffling instances of planes taking off never to be seen again. Here, we look at some of the most perplexing missing plane mysteries
Samantha Hartsoe investigated after noticing a breeze blowing through her bathroom. She discovered there was a whole hidden apartment lurking behind her bathroom mirror
A former moderator of the 22,500-strong Facebook group revealed that creepy voyeurs had been paying 'good money' to join the women-only group in order to gain access to breastfeeding photos
Ex-banker Jaime Botin, 84, one of Spain's richest men, lost his appeal against paying the staggering amount, claiming he was taking the £22m artwork to Switzerland for safekeeping
Elin Mellbergstedt was freaked out when her friends spotted an eerie figure in her video. Some suggested it appeared to be a human face with a witch-like nose but others said it could be an animal
Witnesses from all sides of Las Vegas flooded Twitter with videos and pictures of the unusual sight, with some claiming they were a large UFO. Others dismissed them as military flares
At one point a crowd of nearly 2,000 people had gathered around the ambulance being used to transport the "dead" body of Shankar Shanmukh Gombi to a morgue where a post mortem was due to start
The MV Alta somehow made the trip of over 1,000 miles of open ocean without a crew, and no-one has come forward to claim ownership of the 250-foot merchantman
Influencer Refa Al-Yemi, who is popular on video platforms Snapchat and TikTok, was also allegedly kidnapped by relatives because of her appearance and online workouts
Ex-solder Kirill Tereshin, 24, injected himself with petroleum jelly to look muscly, but is now paying the price which may include losing the use of his arms - or worse
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is also forking out the entire cost of the voyage on Elon Musk's SpaceX's next-generation reusable launch vehicle, dubbed the Starship. Fancy joining him?
Researchers say the kitefin shark, the blacnkbelly lanternshark and the southern lanternshark emit light as camouflage to hide from predators and prey up to 1,000m below sea level
Grimes, the musician and girlfriend of Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk, has made almost £4.3 million in just 20 minutes from selling digital "cyptoart" online
Some people can't resist acting up for the camera – especially when it's the Google Streetview camera and they are potentially performing for an audience of billions
Flintshire resident Stephen saw the black feline-like animal walking across a field when he was walking his dog. It is the fourth time a "big cat" has been seen in the area
The unusual sight was caught on camera the day after a dazzling meteor exploded above Gloucester. There is so far no clear indication of what caused the flash of light
Brandon Monhollen shared the theory on TikTok, where it has since been seen 1.2 million times. It suggests the "light at the end of the tunnel" could actually be linked to a hospital
The UK's secret underground fortress near Corsham, Wiltshire, was built in case of nuclear war. Known as the Burlington Bunker, it was to host the Prime Minister and Royal Family
Agriculture staff and students at Hartpury University and College's Home Farm in Gloucestershire had a shock this lambing season when a ewe had a very rare birth of five adorable lambs
Agriculture staff and students at Hartpury University and College's Home Farm in Gloucestershire had a shock this lambing season when a ewe had a very rare birth of five adorable lambs
The woman believes she photographed at least one ghost through the window of an old 19th-century mill, on an evening walk in the dark last week in Hull, East Yorkshire
Fingers are pointing towards the possibility of the mythical 'Chupacabra' ('Goat Sucker') being responsible for 18 sheep deaths over four separate attacks since Christmas
Daniella Marley, of Plymouth, believes their critically endangered Mexican salamander eggs are the only wild ones in the UK and said: "We've got no clue how they got there"
The mutant baby goat miraculously lived for four days before passing away. The vet who treated the kid said the parent goats' mismatched genes could be the cause of the abnoramlity
Scientists, led by Shandong University in China, confirmed the space hurricane above the North Pole. They said it rained electrons instead of water and lasted for eight hours
BiteLabs offers customers the chance to turn Jennifer Lawrence or Kanye West into a delicious sausage, and a religious website is warning it's a sign of the apocalypse
A suburb of Europe's easternmost and coldest town in Russia has been abandoned over the past decade and left for nature to claim it back, barraging buildings with snow and ice
Footage shows a strange creature said to be a "skinwalker" run towards a car. The figure is pale and walks on two legs but has an appearance some people think is supernatural
Professional exorcist Ralph Keeton has recalled some of the most harrowing moments from his lifelong battle with evil "spirits, demons and malevolent energies"
Stunning green parakeets have long been spotted around the UK but no one has ever been able to put their finger on how they first arrived. One outlandish theory believes guitar legend Jimi Hendrix is to blame
The process of "cryopreservation" means a body or even just the head is frozen in liquid nitrogen which can preserve the body for thousands, if not millions of years, in hope of future revival
What looks uncannily like a giant extraterrestrial mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind was spotted in the skies above Florida this week – can you guess what it is?
Big Diomede and Little Diomede are very close but they are each either side of the International Date Line. It means the bigger island is almost a day ahead of its smaller counterpart
An ancient texts says the United States will be drawn into a conflict involving Iran and Saudi Arabia, with the fighting bringing "great strife and darkness into the world"
EXCLUSIVE: Gary Opit says that the creature jump onto his roof just before Christmas last year - and it's not the first time he believes he's come close to the Nimbinjee
Viktoria Pustovitova and Alexander Kudlay chained themselves together on Valentine's Day and say they plan to remain living as 'siamese twins' for at least three months
Colin Keelty claims to have had multiple run-ins with an enormous dog-human hybrid in rural areas of the UK through his life, and is "open-minded" there could be a supernatural explanation
Colin Keelty claims to have had multiple run-ins with an enormous dog-human hybrid in rural areas of the UK through his life, and is "open-minded" there could be a supernatural explanation
The popular genealogy website unveiled its latest feature at a conference this week and already social media users have enthusiastically posted deepfake clips of their own ancestors
American Airlines Flight 2292 has stirred a hotbed of conspiracy theories after its pilot saw a "UFO" or "UAP" fly above the cockpit on February 21. But it is not the first time weird objects have been reported flying close to planes
The entire koala population of Queensland and New South Wales is thought to be carrying the virus, and scientists fear it could spell the end for the little creatures
Hasbro said Mr Potato Head, which has been around for about 70 years, needed a modern makeover and will now become just Potato Head - but some have blasted the “PC gone mad” decision
Hundreds of owners of the £1,500 Roomba vacuum cleaners say their household robots seem to be "drunk" after a bug in a new software update wiped the devices' memories
The Coach and Horses used to operate just a few doors from where the Queen was born in Mayfair, central London. The tiny boozer has just five tables and a chilling story behind it
Astrobiologist Avi Loeb has a theory that the mysterious cigar-shaped rock detected within the Milky Way is a "sail" designed by some kind of alien civilisation
EXCLUSIVE: Deborah Hatswell screamed when a beast she believes was Bigfoot crawled out bushes in a park in Salford - chillingly, she's not the only one to spot the creature in the same place
NASA has hidden an Easter Egg in the parachute of its Perseverance Mars rover and people excitedly tried to figure out the secret message written in binary code
The crew of an American Airlines Airbus flying between between Cincinnati and Phoenix on Sunday were buzzed by a 'long cyclindrical' object that can't be explained by any known military operation
More than 9 million people have seen the creepy footage on TikTok and many were left convinced that an unknown force "dragged" the young daughter underneath the bed
Millions of people have watched, liked and shared a panorama video claiming to show real footage and audio from the Red Planet, but experts have revealed it's a fake
A Google Maps user was intrigued when they searched Chernobyl and apparently found a mysterious pile of bones in a derelict building within the nuclear disaster area
An Arizona man was so desperate to get out of work for a day that he allegedly staged a fake kidnapping, and then tied himself up and laid by the side of a road waiting to be discovered
The bull was born with two legs on his back at a farm in Northern Ireland. He has now been rehomed following a Facebook appeal launched by the farmer who feared he would become an outcast in the herd
The annual Hadaka Matsuri in Okyama, Japan, which began almost 1,000 years ago, involves men battling with "holy sticks" and wearing nothing but loincloths and socks
Abdullah Nuren found three pups inside a mother shark and noticed one of them was deformed. He has preserved the mutant pup as he believes it will bring him good luck
The green fireball came hurtling through the clouds and lit up the pre-dawn sky for a few seconds. Similar sightings were also reported from the same region on Monday (February 22)
Jonathan Terry was heard calling the black figure "massive" as he filmed it looking for food in a field in Flintshire, North Wales and it is not the first time a "big cat" has been seen in the region
An Instagram clip shows Harmony offering to "f***" a man "to death" if he wanted. Her artificial intelligence chatbot also said she can tell him the meaning of "true love"
Skipper stunned vets after she was born six days ago in Oklahoma City, US. The Aussie Border Collie mix is believed to be the first dog ever born alive with her condition
WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Cobra Gold sees thousands of soldiers from around the world come to Thailand to eat live lizards and kill chickens with their bare hands
The strange shape on Google Maps was spotted in a shadow in front of a block of flats in Cairo, Egypt. A social media user claimed it looked like a muscular ghost
Ian Griffiths said the experience put him on edge after he captured a "ghost girl" image and an eerie sound recording using his "ghost-hunting" device of the mirror bought from an antiques shop.
The popular Pups and Prerolls promotion, which makes sure everyone has "a best friend to smoke with" offers five free pre-rolled cannabis joints as a bonus gift to dog adopters
A large home for sale in California for around £475,000 comes "as-is" which may be enough to put off potential buyers due to the bizarre collection of life-size dolls in dresses inside
Aerial footage from Sao Paolo in Brazil appeared to capture a mysterious shape hurtling across the skies during a storm, which viewers of news outlet Brazil Urgente were quick to spot
Ancient mammoth DNA that sheds new light the iconic beasts has been recovered from the remains of three individuals that lived in Siberia over a million years ago
Streets in San Francisco were closed yesterday as a Victorian-era house was loaded onto rollers and moved about half a mile down the city's steep hills to make way for new flats
The pair in Ireland breached Covid rules to attend an illegal exorcism outside the Irish parliament have declared a "spiritual war" on their "children of darkness" critics
Hundreds of worshippers descended on Ethiopia's Church of St Mary of Zion to protect what is believed by many to be the sacred relic of Indiana Jones fame after heightened tensions in the area
Eagle-eyed mum-of-three Joleen Vultaggio, 50, made the shock discovery, which is part of the Trinity Islands off the coast of New Caledonia, Oceania, while trawling the online world map.
Ms Xu went to feed a baby monkey instead of the adult one and was attacked from behind. The adult primate appeared stunned after accidentally snatching her long wig off
A man has filmed "Bigfoot" walking across a field in plain sight, although some people say it's likely the dark humanoid shape is just a man taking a solitary stroll through the forest
Tessica Brown, 40, became an overnight social media sensation after sharing a video of her with the adhesive stuck in her hair, and has since kept the world updated on how the saga played out
The half-eaten corpse of the fearsome creature was spotted by Scottish expat Karen Lythgoe in Singapore and appears to have the head of an alligator and the body of a fish
Groundbreaking US business HercLéon’s is selling hight tech self-cleaning underwear woven with bamboo and copper fibres so we'll never need to change our pants again
A Google Earth user claims to have found an "invisible" US Air Force plane hiding in the satellite images. The translucent shape of a plane is seen outside a hangar
Who really murdered Belle Starr? Was Billy the Kid really shot by Pat Garrett? And did Butch Cassidy actually survive? We look at the top Wild West outlaws and some of the mysteries around them...
Terrified Shannon Stevens jumped up screaming for help after getting a terrifying surprise from a "cinnamon-coloured bear face big enough to fill the hole" below as soon as she sat down
The documents from 1984 centre around a subject who was supposedly able to have an out-of-body experience to witness Mars 1 million years ago – where he also supposedly saw a "pyramid"
Vegans have twice as much sex as meat-eaters a survey reckons, while Tottenham Hotspur supporters were top of the league when it came to football fans who have the best sex
Vegans have twice as much sex as meat-eaters a survey reckons, while Tottenham Hotspur supporters were top of the league when it came to football fans who have the best sex
Siti Zainah, 25, reportedly gave birth just an hour after realising she was pregnant in Indonesia. She claimed a "gust of wind" entered her vagina after finishing her prayers
The ancient millstone from Roman times was dug up by a team of archaeologists working on Britain’s biggest roads project on the A14 upgrade in Cambridgeshire
Fisherman Paul Lore was fishing near the city of Melbourne, Florida when he made the bizarre catch, which he described as "one of the weirdest" he has ever found
Chicken farmer Joe Simonton said he was visited by aliens at his farm in Eagle River, Wisconsin, US, and that they offered him a parting gift of a stack of four pancakes
The 80-acre Medlin Ranch has a unique agreement in place which could allow the owner to access the restricted site, but you'll have to pay a lot if you want to buy it
Since the calf was born, its owner claims he has won nearly £500 on the lottery. Villagers have flocked to see the creature and a shrine is set to be built in its honour
The mum-of-two stumbled across the dolls while walking in Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, and she claims that they were in "some sort of order". They were found on the site of a former war hospital
Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey found a whole lot more than they bargained for when dropping a camera down a hole they had drilled through 900 metres of ice
Top experts have urged the US and other nations to have a "laser-like" focus on ensuring China does not steam ahead in terms of astronomic exploration and expansion
**WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES** In an attempt to stretch out his manhood in time to show it off on Valentine's Day, a man instead had a date with a metal-cutter in hospital
One Google Maps user spotted the rude sign addressed to the big tech company in the desert. It led Reddit users to speculate about how it got there and what will happen to it
Since the Colombian crime boss was shot dead aged 44 in 1993, the huge hippos have been left to roam the tropical wetlands around his former luxury estate… and have thrived
An urban explorer has revealed what it's like inside the derelict Rosehall House where Coco Chanel lived in the 1920s, but has remained unoccupied for the last 54 years
While hospitals are often a safe haven where you go to be treated by medical brainiacs, some often encounter people from "the other life" who mysteriously vanish into thin air
The Strid at Bolton Abbey, in North Yorkshire, is part of the River Wharfe. A YouTuber claims it is the most dangerous stretch of water anywhere on Earth and has claimed lives