The desolate, wind-swept desert of the Paracas Peninsula on the southern coast of Peru holds one of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world. In 1928, the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Julio ...

The trip had all the makings of a boring car ride—until the couple saw mysterious lights approaching from the sky.

If and when SETI discovers alien life, then a revised Declaration of Principles guarantees that once the discovery has been ...

The result comes from OpenAI's GPT-4.5 model, which tricked the judges into thinking it was the human 73% of the time, while ...

Two large language models have passed the Turing test, which determines if a machine can “show the same intelligence as a ...

Disclosure Day' director Steven Spielberg thinks we're not alone in the universe. He's not the only one.

The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear: An interstellar comet looks to ...

A comet from another star system does not arrive every year. That is part of what made 3I/ATLAS so compelling when it ...

This second set of remains belonged to what the world would come to know as the Starchild Skull. For nearly a century, this artifact has served as a battlefield between those who believe in ...

The mystery of Peru's "conehead" mummies has baffled scientists for decades, and new DNA tests on the mummies' teeth have ...

Fresh conspiracy theories involving the CIA, extraterrestrials and consumer DNA databases are gaining attention after claims surfaced alleging that US intelligence agencies may have secretly accessed ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...