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Erich von Däniken, the father of ancient astronaut theory, passed away at the age of 90 on January 11, 2026, at a hospital in Interlaken, Switzerland. Born in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen in 1935, von Däniken authored the seminal 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? that launched the idea that

A new archaeological discovery has radically rewritten the timeline of when humans first began using fire, pushing the earliest known use of fire to roughly 400,000 years ago—eight times older than the previously-oldest evidence for fire use by humans, dated to only 50,000 years ago. This discovery has profound implications

A planetary scientist with NASA has found that the Star of Bethlehem that led the Magi to the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth could have been a comet recorded by Chinese astronomers in 5 BCE that may have passed dangerously close to the Earth, allowing it to appear stationary in the heavens

NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Team has published a paper proposing a new configuration for a theoretical warp drive that, instead of using a singular ring that encompasses the spacecraft to warp spacetime as a method of propulsion, three separate generators that surround the craft could be employed to solve a number