Erich von Däniken, author who promoted the theory that human life has extraterrestrial origins

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

Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer who spawned alien archaeology, dies at 90

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

Alien: Isolation's Xenomorph doesn’t need to resort to try-hard jumpscares

Players do get little glimpses of the Xenomorph before this point — they'll witness it kill an NPC with its tail, hear it ...

Best of CES 2026: X-Origin AIPI Lite

The X-Origin AIPI Lite is a very interesting chatbot that is also extremely cheap. It can be a rather interesting AI ...

Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

If you've got a spare 200 hours, the massively ambitious sci-fi grand strategy from the creators of X-COM: The Long War just launched out of early access

Terra Invicta aims to be the last word in preparing Earth for alien invasion.

This asteroid is spilling secrets about the origin of life on Earth

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...