The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

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 ...

An illegal alien truck driver accused of causing a crash in Florida that killed three people failed his commercial driver’s license (CDL) test 10 times in two months before finally receiving a license ...

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Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

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 ...