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

NASA has discovered signs of life on Mars in the form of organic carbon, sulfur, rust, and phosphorous in a canyon, and new ...

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

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

A rock found last year on the surface of Mars offered tantalising evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. Now ...

But the claim that NASA announced found life on Mars was false. NASA announced it found promising evidence of potential ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic ...

NASA recently announced that its Perseverance Mars rover discovered rock material containing potential biosignatures, with ...

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

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

"When we see features like this in sediment on Earth, these minerals are often the byproduct of microbial metabolisms that ...

The planet TRAPPIST-1e lies in its star’s Goldilocks zone, where water remains liquid – and an analysis suggests it might ...