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

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 closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Astronomers have found a compact solar system whose planets line up in a way that, according to current models, should not be possible. Around the small star LHS 1903, a dense rocky world orbits on ...

We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting ...

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...

Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...