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.

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

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

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

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 ...

While radio waves are the method of choice when searching for signals of intelligent alien life, other detectable signs also ...

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.

But in reality, it may be the beginning of a new phase of life for all the objects living in the solar system. When stars ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

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 ...

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 ...