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

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the same real-life star that was home to the fictional moon Pandora in James ...

New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

It's the fifth such life-possible planet outside our solar system revealed in less than a year, but still relatively nearby Earth. WASHINGTON - Astronomers have found yet another planet that seems to ...

A Jupiter-like planet has been found orbiting a young sun-like star in a solar system far away in what is a potentially ...

Using radial velocity measurements, an international team of astronomers has identified a second planet orbiting a nearby ...

Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that has stumped scientists. Most of the stars across the Milky Way are small red dwarfs ...

Astronomers have discovered WISPIT-2b, the first-ever baby planet responsible for carving gaps in the dusty disk around a newborn star.

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on ...

What can young planets teach astronomers about the formation and evolution of planets throughout the cosmos? This is what two studies published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as ...

There’s a rule of thumb that can come in handy when you hear about new planet discoveries from the Kepler space mission. If they’re talking about a handful of new worlds orbiting distant stars, it’s ...