Jetavanaramaya, a colossal fourth-century Sri Lankan stupa, was once among the world’s largest structures — a vast and ancient brick-built engineering marvel born out of religious rivalry that has ...

Scientists have now identified a strange slice of Earth deep below the Pacific that may explain why this region is currently creating the world's fastest spreading ocean ridge – the East Pacific Rise.

Mantle plumes beneath volcanic hotspots, like Hawaii, Iceland, and the Galapagos, seem to be anchored into a large structure within the core-mantle boundary (CMB). A new study, published in Science ...

Let's just call it the alien megastructure that wasn't. More than 100 researchers have released a study showing that the mysterious star KIC 8462852, better known as Tabby's Star, is almost certainly ...

The Dyson Sphere is a theoretical megastructure proposed to surround a star and capture its full energy output. While some designs imagine a solid shell, most scientific analyses consider a “swarm” of ...

The scientist who discovered it said it felt "surreal" after making the major discovery. Scientists have discovered a massive ring-shaped structure in space that challenges our understanding of the ...

The hunt for an alien megastructure in 2015 wasn't totally fruitless. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 2015, the same year an ...

Back in 2016, headlines all over the world blared with news of a possible "alien megastructure" detected orbiting a distant Milky Way star. Now, a team of Columbia University astrophysicists has ...

Imagine that you roll out of bed onto a living fungus floor. The walls and ceiling — heck, the whole apartment building, down to the plumbing and electrical systems — are made of fungus too. Wood and ...