Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.
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Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...
Astronomers say a newly discovered solar system about 116 light years from Earth is challenging long held ideas about how planets form.According to CNN, researchers using telescopes from NASA ...
The powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has given astronomers a glimpse into distant corners of our universe. The telescope's latest discovery is one of the weirdest yet. In a new publication ...
For decades, scientists have believed that planetary systems typically form with rocky planets close to their star and gas-rich planets farther away. This discovery questions their knowledge.
Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations – and suggests these faraway worlds formed in a manner never seen ...
“This strange disorder makes it a unique inside-out system,” first author Dr Thomas Wilson, Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, said in a statement seen by IFLScience. “Rocky planets don ...
Scientists used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ...
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...
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