Exciting new findings reveal that WASP-121b, a blazing-hot giant planet, may have formed far from its star in a colder, ice-rich region—before migrating inward to its current extreme orbit. Chemical f ...

A new approach to analysis traced the viral DNA across evolution to identify its positions in our genome and understand its ...

One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA that were ...

A portion of our genome that was once dismissed as being “junk” may actually play an important role in regulating gene ...