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

The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds ...

NASA rover Perseverance collected evidence being considered by agency officials as 'the closest we have ever come to ...

There are some scientific discoveries that do much more than advance our knowledge: they create a shift in our psyche as they show us the scale of the Universe and our place in it. One such moment was ...

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

Could TRAPPIST-1e hold life? Webb observations show the planet may retain an atmosphere 40 light-years from Earth.

A new SETI methodology focuses on detecting the "spillover" from directed interstellar communications, mirroring how we communicate with our own spacecraft, rather than relying on broad, speculative ...

Though the rings appear solid from afar, they’re actually a dynamic, rotating system of icy debris. One theory suggests they ...

NASA was hoping that the new world they found had similar structures to our Earth, but in reality it's not habitable due to ...

Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...

"This can dramatically increase the habitability zone for all rocky worlds." Here on Earth, liquid water is key to life. But elsewhere? That might not be the case. A new study suggests that other ...