Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

For those peering nervously at the night sky, fearing that our newest celestial visitor might be the vanguard of an ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

Scientists found new evidence (or lack thereof) disproving the conspiracy theory that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien ...

Scientists have found new evidence suggesting that interstellar 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spaceship, as one conspiracy theory ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

Erich von Daeniken, the Swiss author known for his ancient-alien theories, has died at 90. His 1968 book, 'Chariots of the Gods?', suggested that extraterrestrials influenced human development, a ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

Despite criticism from the scientific community, his books sold almost 70 million copies in more than 30 languages.