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.

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

Star Wars had been released in theaters and changed everything about the way Hollywood perceived the genre, and television executives wanted in on that cash-grab just as much as movie executives. In ...

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Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the ...

Ryan Gosling had a surprise visitor during his “Saturday Night Live” monologue on Saturday, and it wasn’t anyone from the ...

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As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.

Steven Spielberg returns to sci-fi with a somber UFO invasion flick this summer ...