In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

Searching for exoplanets within these disks is highly challenging. Astronomers use clues from the shape and morphology of the disks to infer the presence of exoplanets. Fomalhaut's debris disk ...

Scientists are steadily ruling out habitable conditions on the seven planets of the star Trappist-1. On one of the worlds, a ...

In a new study, researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered in simulations that a small body under half the size of the Earth would be able to cool a moon's subsurface ocean for more than ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around ...

Planetary scientists believe they can now predict the green glow of an aurora in the night sky above Mars, and they have the ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.