Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. The James Webb Space Telescope has its sights set on seven planets circling a red dwarf star called Trappist-1, about 40 ...

New crust forms at midocean ... plate tectonics may explain why one planet hosts life and the other likely doesn't. "A lot of the development of where we're going to go in plate tectonics is going to ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...