Sci-fi movies explore many great ideas, but movies like Alien deserve to be considered greats and remain at the top decades ...

A woman was arrested by ICE officers and is facing deportation despite her lawyer’s insistence that she is a U.S. citizen ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship for newborns whose parents are here illegally or temporarily will get a full hearing before the Supreme Court. The justices ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Supreme Court justices like to talk about the Constitution's separation of powers and how it limits the exercise of official authority. But Chief Justice John G. Roberts and his conservative ...

The White House on Friday requested the US Supreme Court to review President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. The government urged the court to grant certiorari because it ...

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to rule on the president’s executive order which said the children of illegal migrants and those on short-term U.S. visas should be denied American ...