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 ...

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 ...

Director Dan Trachtenberg is now officially three for three with the Predator franchise. His amazing 2022 film Prey was a fresh take on the basic Predator tropes, only with a different time period and ...

Laura Nicole Driessen is an ambassador for the Orbit Centre of Imagination at the Rise and Shine Kindergarten, in Sydney's Inner West. On October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS reached its closest point to the ...

In October 2025, a Facebook post (archived) about an unusual finding spread across the platform. According to the post, scientists discovered robotic micro spiders from the comet 3I/ATLAS 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 ...

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 ...

Adult Swim has been home to several iconic TV series over the years, but when it comes to riffing on pop culture, nothing compares to Robot Chicken. The legendary stop-motion animated series has been ...

Alien: Earth premieres with two episodes on Tuesday, August 12, and drops one episode per week after that. FX dropped the first two episodes of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth, and it’s clear from the ...

Yarael Poof might be a background Jedi in Star Wars, but Robot Chicken turned him into a comedy legend. This video breaks down his funniest moments and why fans still remember them. Dramatic manhunt ...

When asked to recall the earliest movie that defined robots for him, “Alien: Earth” star Timothy Olyphant leapt from Ridley Scott’s universe into an entirely different sector of space. “I certainly ...