Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, starry-eyed architects set their minds to megastructures – massive, multi-purpose designs that could house communities or even entire cities. Complex and expensive to ...

If your understanding of Stone Age humans is one of primitive cave people bashing rocks together, then perhaps it’s time to think again. Our ancient ancestors were able to build huge Neolithic ...

A story that went viral this week reports that astronomers finally found E.T., but those aren't the facts. CNET's Eric Mack talks with the astronomers involved about what is still a very interesting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Here on Earth, the amount of energy available to us is determined by ...

The world was electrified last year when it was suggested that scientists had spotted an “alien megastructure” orbiting a distant star. Now a space boffin has suggested huge extraterrestrial ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. It might be evidence of aliens building gigantic structures around ...

KIC 8462852, the strangest star in the galaxy, dims and brightens in a way that could be explained by an advanced civilization. But the star's namesake has nixed that idea. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

In 2015, The Atlantic first reported that astronomers had discovered some tantalizing information about a distant star in the Milky Way, located about 1,300 light-years from Earth in a swan-shaped ...

Last October, when a new study reported on the discovery of a new star exhibiting some really strange lighting effects, the world was like, “ALIENS DEFINITELY ALIENS.” Star KIC 8462852, affectionally ...

The excavation of a Stone Age community center in Ukraine is helping explain why large groups of tens of thousands of people flourished and then fell more than 5,000 years ago. The "megastructure" ...