"Stargate SG-1" became a sci-fi fan favorite, resulting in one of the longest-running genre series ever. We've picked five of ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

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.

While we try to maintain older articles behind the scenes on downthetubes on a fairly regular basis – removing dead links, for example – it’s rare for updates to throw up a new mystery. Originally ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions has been sued by a filmmaker behind 1995’s Alien Autopsy amid production on a Sky series about the extraterrestrial hoax. Mindhouse is working with ...

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 ...

The Cosmos is calling MIIS tabletop gamers to the library on October first! From 7-9 PM, Joelle will be running Cosmic Encounter, the game that pits space alien against space alien in a struggle for ...

Alien: Earth just pulled off one of the best fakeouts in recent TV history. After kicking off the Alien prequel series by introducing an entire crew of Weyland-Yutani employees aboard a ship called ...

Aliens, Avengers, and X-Men collide in an intergalactic war. Survival depends on uneasy alliances and raw power. FBI warns of 3-phase scam that is draining bank accounts Bruce Willis’s wife hits out ...