An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...
Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
Artist impression of the planetary system with four planets,around a small red star,called LHS1903. Caption: Astronomers have long thought solar systems follow a simple pattern similar to our own: ...
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 ). Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. August 22, 2024, Mountain View, CA - An ...