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.

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 ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

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 ...

The year is 2063 and brilliant scientist Zefram Cochrane has just carried out the first successful test flight of a ‘warp engine’, unlocking the seemingly impossible possibilities of faster-than-light ...