From budgetary issues to wanting to recast Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, James Cameron’s version of Aliens almost never ...

Spielberg has long been known for his love of alien-related material. That's why he produced the abduction-based Taken ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

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Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Conspiracy theories have raged about 3I/ATLAS being an unnatural object. But the alien question, while fun, generates misinformation and distracts from the science. When you purchase through links on ...

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 ...

As the government shutdown drags on, Republicans are accusing Democrats of, in the words of House Speaker Mike Johnson, “holding the American government HOSTAGE so they can give FREE health care to ...

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 definitely gets a lot right, but after watching the season 1 finale, I'm torn, because it gets a lot of things wrong, too. There's clear commitment to certain aspects of the Alien ...

Certain movie moments just stick with you for life, and the scene in which a creature bursts out of John Hurt's chest in the film was gory enough to get our stomachs churning—but for the actors on set ...

The Alien franchise has always focused on just one titular alien — the Xenomorph. Yes, over the years, we got extrapolations of the Xenomorph, like the Queen, and the facehuggers. Yet they all still ...