From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

The "love island" isn't some strange experiment but a crucial step by conservationists to increase the population of the endangered species. The small and uninhabitable islet of Prickly Pear East has ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The creepiest new alien that the Weyland-Yutani ship the Maginot discovered was what we call “the octopus eye,” whose official name is the T. Ocellus. We already saw in the first few episodes that ...

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 ...

Adult Swim’s animated sci-fi behemoth Rick and Morty has become a cult success due to its lawless creativity, meta-humor, and nihilism on an equal opportunity basis. However, behind its whirling ...