Have you ever heard a recording of your voice and been surprised? It isn’t the same as the one in your head, and you realize the voice others hear isn’t necessarily yours. How you’re perceived can ...

In early February of 1943, Gene Grabeel walks toward a corner of a large, crowded room inside Arlington Hall near Washington, D.C. Around her, clutches of people huddle over tables and quietly rifle ...

Angela Sant'Albano, who plays new 'Resident Evil' hero Grace Ashcroft, talks about playing to frights in Capcom's latest zombie horror.

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

Even though it's the dead of winter, thrillers are always in season — at least on Peacock. The NBC-owned streamer added a few dozen titles at the beginning of February, and Watch With Us has found ...

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 ...

Very few video game series celebrate women as often as Resident Evil. The series began with two campaigns that both featured playable women in Jill Valentine and Rebecca Chambers. There is a good ...

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 ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

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 ...