New research from Southwest Research Institute reveals that violent late-stage planetary collisions shaped Earth’s water, ...

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 official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA’s tally of ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

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

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.

In a first, astronomers imaged a baby planet within a gap in the disk of material around a star, confirming predictions about how rings form.

In “Citizen Science in Astronomy (Part 7),” SETI Institute astronomers Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Lauren Sgro highlight two rare and compelling discoveries and the crucial role of citizen scientists ...

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...

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