When MESSENGER studied Mercury it uncovered a crater that defied every scientific model. This story reveals why it shocked ...

Curiosity Point 1: Did a catastrophic event turn Venus into a hellish world?

@Starlit Astronomy: The many mysteries of Venus may be related to a massive celestial impact event. In the early solar system ...

A medical panel hand-picked by Robert F Kennedy has voted to restrict access to a combined vaccine for measles, mumps, ...

NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover — built and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge — collected a ...

NASA's Perseverance robot spotted the intriguing rock on Aug. 31 and stopped to snap a photograph. It was exploring Jezero ...

Russian forces bombarded the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with rockets overnight, as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged European leaders to make the continent safe by building an ambitious ...

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

Jupiter is the king of moons. With 95 of them orbiting the gas giant, some are so large they rival planets in size. But what ...