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

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

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 ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

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 ...

Astronomers have spotted an unusual 'inside-out' planetary system where a rocky world seems to have formed far beyond the realm typically reserved for gas giants.

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

'LHS 1903 breaks this thinking.' ...