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You may not be at all familiar with the planet LHS 3844B, but now it has its own special difference: it is the first planet outside our solar system where astronomers believe they may have evidence of tectonic activity. That evidence is a set of advanced simulations based on observations …

How did Earth’s tectonic plates form? You might think that this would be an easy question to answer, considering that we are now trying to pin down the details of when it happened, and if there is tectonic activity on the Moon. But our knowledge of how this planetary mechanism …