What do you get when you take an alien parasite and smush it together with a human being? Would you get to become a ...

From space slugs to lunar cemeteries, these movies, games, and books show that the undead can arrive from above, as well as below.

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize 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 ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is, once again, doing something strange. This interloper from another star is currently concealed from view behind the sun, leading some people to wonder what it has ...

The Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed a case of rat lungworm disease in an individual on the island of Kauai. Rat lungworm disease, a parasitic disease also known as neuroangiostrongyliasis, ...

State health officials have confirmed a case of rat lungworm disease in a Kauai resident. Neuroangiostrongyliasis, commonly known as rat lungworm disease, is caused by a parasitic roundworm and can ...

Like many fans we are simply having fun using science to analyze the creatures. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was ...

The only qualifications for inclusion are that they could have naturally led into a subsequent story and were solid enough to receive such a subsequent story, even if audiences didn’t appreciate the ...