Professor John Wiens from the University of Arizona has shed new light on the pace of new species discoveries — and how it ...

At first glance, the Drake Equation looks like a hopeful scientific tool. In reality, it leads to disturbing possibilities about isolation, extinction, and survival. This breakdown explains the ...

Every episode of season 5 of The Big Questions podcast is now available, where we explore the biggest questions in science ...

In 1994, the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter with a force equal to 300 million atomic bombs.

Known to science as Iguana delicatissima (as in Latin for “most delicate”, not delicatessen, you hungry hungry humans), ...

Critically endangered Lesser Antillean iguanas are the rise after Anguilla moved a population of the lizards to a deserted ...

I believe that this is one of the worst campaigns of all time. The same overpriced video game every dang year in both storage and in price creating a video game storage/memory monopoly with the same ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It might be easy to write off the protagonist of Bugonia as nothing more than a tin foil hat-wearing ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

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 ...