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.

T he blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling ...

Unlike most Florida beaches with their bright white sand, Boneyard Beach has darker, more compact sand that makes the bleached driftwood stand out even more. Add in the blue-green Atlantic water and ...

New research shows many people vastly underestimate other people's beliefs in extraterrestrial life. Is social stigma keeping ...

A warehouse worker, Teddy (played by Jesse Plemons), accuses high-powered CEO Michelle (Emma Stone) of being an ...

Wright-Patterson has played a central role in the US military’s real investigations into mysterious objects in the sky — from Cold War-era research programs to efforts to study what the government now ...

In a talk at South by Southwest, Steven Spielberg revealed his own thoughts about the existence of space aliens while discussing his upcoming "Disclosure Day." ...

One of the consultants on Close Encounters was Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the head of an Air Force investigation called Project Blue ...

Invasive species that are introduced into non-native environments threaten ecosystems, wildlife, and human well-being.

In the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree sits Giant Rock, one of the largest freestanding boulders in North America. But the rock’s story is far stranger than its size. In the 1930s a hermit named Frank ...

Driftwood Beach on Jekyll Island, Georgia is one of those rare spots that makes you question whether you’re still in the Southeast or somehow stumbled through a portal into another dimension. When the ...