Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

A Florida State University chemist has developed a method to rapidly assemble significantly complex natural molecules with potential for biomedical applications, opening the door for novel drug ...

Around 1.7 billion years ago, eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—first appeared on Earth, and now scientists have ...

Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...

These creatures are so fragile that the moment they are pulled out from the water, they collapse and disappear.

A New Zealand woman gets knocked up by something from another world in a movie that has a sweet, sticky heart underneath its juvenile humor and outrageous prosthetics. “Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant” ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

‘Alien: Earth’ will return for a second season. Creator Noah Hawley has signed a new deal with FX. The new season will start shooting next year. As one of the biggest, buzziest TV hits of the year, ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens. Reading time 6 minutes At Gizmodo, we love a good story about ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Alien Earth’s first season has ended, and the important bit of that is “first” season. What seemed like it might have been a miniseries was in fact meant to have multiple seasons, and now we have some ...