An inside-out planetary system around the star LHS 1903 is turning everything that astronomers know about planet formation upside down.

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

An exoplanetary system located about 116 light-years from Earth may be reshaping scientists’ understanding of how planets ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than ...

A distant planet’s final spiral into its star reframed Earth’s fate: not one sudden end, but long quiet thresholds over deep time.

Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant ‘super-Jupiter’ planet, demonstrating a technique that could enable breakthroughs in the quest to understand how ...

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and planetary masses silently orbit their stars — sometimes thousands of astronomical ...

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