"Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the ...

Vanishing hitchhiker legends are so ubiquitous that there’s an entire subfield of folklore research, going back more than 80 ...

The first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book was published in October 1979. Fans are looking back at how the series has endured in popularity and why it's still relevant.

An Oregon woman who has been missing for more than seven months told her father shortly before she disappeared that she had picked up a hitchhiker while on a road trip she took while grieving her ...

Hitchhiker’s thumb is when your thumb is very flexible and can bend backward, sometimes up to 90 degrees. Learn more about what causes it, what conditions are associated with it, and more.

A hitchhiker waits for a lift on a dual carriageway in central France in 1977. Julian Yewdall/Getty Images "Today, the press release went out, the John Doe had now been identified," Maxey's ...

People generally believe hitching takes no particular know-how, but it takes a tremendous amount of skill to travel quickly, safely and in the right direction like Juan Villarino. March 22, 2018 ...

I'd never picked up a hitchhiker before, and I understood that giving a ride to a random person in the middle of nowhere, Turkey, where I have very few contacts was a questionable move.

A shift in Earth’s poles 42,000 years ago may have drastically altered the planet’s climate, scientists have found — and they’re naming the period after the author Douglas Adams.