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

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

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A civilization capable of interstellar travel may also be one that has moved beyond conquest, excess and ecological ...

A new study challenges a site that's crucial to our understanding of how people got to the Americas. Decades ago, a site in Chile called Monte Verde was dated to ...

Throughout the year, IndieWire asks cinematographers with films premiering at major festivals to tell us what formats, cameras, and lenses they chose in order to create the look of their films, and ...

Jeff Bezos’ space venture recently unveiled its Near-Earth Objects (NEO) Hunter mission, which leverages the company’s Blue Ring platform to protect Earth from potentially hazardous asteroids. Blue ...

A 19-year-old from Mexico died Monday at a South Florida immigration detention center, according to a release from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day every March 14, the date that represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi.

Extremophile microbes that flourish in conditions lethal to most life are moving from scientific curiosities to potential tools for climate action and astrobiology. New work on deep ocean communities, ...