But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

You’ve traveled thousands of light-years through interstellar star systems. And now you’re stranded on a planet you know nothing about. As long as you’ve got oxygen, water and food aboard your ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp ...

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 ...

The Fermi Paradox asks a simple question: if alien civilizations should be common, where is everybody? The Zoo Hypothesis offers a chilling answer—advanced civilizations may already be out there, ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

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 ...