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

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

Astronomers may have demoted Pluto from full-fledged planet to dwarf status, but evidence suggests the solar system may still ...

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

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...