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

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Some of the best science fiction TV shows ever premiered in the 1990s, and they are still worth watching today.

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

SETI researchers may have missed alien signals due to a cosmic phenomenon that distorts narrowband radio waves, new research says.

Hollywood has never been known for its strict adherence to science. In most blockbusters the laws of physics are treated more like polite suggestions than hard rules. Need I mention “Armageddon”? I ...

Image: Universal Pictures While the crisis of a global pandemic (or near-extinction) is averted by the end of Wise’s sci-fi thriller, the implications are still dire. As humans tend to cycle through ...

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

Human experimentation made many modern medical advances possible—but history shows what happens when ethics are ignored. Across wars, regimes, and institutions, people were subjected to cruel and ...

(via Cleo Abram) In the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are two HUGE concrete tubes. They’re part of a giant machine running the most precise experiment humans have ever built… ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

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 ...