Astronomers have long thought solar systems follow a simple pattern similar to our own: small, rocky worlds orbit close to ...
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...
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 rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS.
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 ...
We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting ...
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
The discovery provides new insights into the question, 'how large can a planet be?' An illustration of the HR 8799 system with three of its gas ...