The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

This week, a rare planet parade featuring Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will light up the early morning sky. A ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

Malefic planets in the 7th house of Vedic astrology, such as Mars, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu, and the Sun, present unique challenges ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...

Some planets may be soot-rich rather than water-based. Atmosphere studies will be key to understanding their true nature.

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

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

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...