A photograph taken by a NASA astronaut has sparked fears it shows an extraterrestrial creature, but it’s just a photo of a potato.

The theory that aliens assisted the builders of ancient monuments was popularised by Swiss author Erich von Däniken in his ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Modern physics ...

After a century of futility, the seemingly impenetrable mystery of weight loss is nearly solved. Until late 2022, most of us were taught that the weight loss journey was paved with willpower. Our ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

Its not science fiction, but abductees across the world describe the same thing. Aliens dont just take you; they edit you. They replace your memories with dreams, lights, and random animals so youll ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...