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 ...
For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...
Most pieces in this series of primers have stayed within the realm of the biological, examining life at the levels of the species, the individual, the organ and the cell. But the first dealt with a ...
Scientists are exploring the origin of life's ingredients on our planet. A recent study suggests that essential volatile compounds, such as hydrogen and carbon, may have come from a cataclysmic impact ...
A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, raising the possibility that it could also have liquid water on its surface and ...
A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, raising the possibility that it could also have liquid water on its surface and ...