This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

This visualization of the Laniakea supercluster, which represents a collection of more than 100,000 estimated galaxies spanning a volume of over 100 million light-years, shows the distribution of dark ...

In a recent revelation that could reshape our understanding of space and the potential for extraterrestrial life, NASA has released data suggesting the presence of artificial structures on the moon.

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

More than 1.5 billion years ago, a momentous thing happened: Two small, primitive cells became one. Perhaps more than any event—barring the origin of life itself—this merger radically changed the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known wooden structure, and it’s almost half a million years old. The simple structure — found along a riverbank in Zambia — is made up of two interlocking ...