A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...
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.
Explore the story of our solar system’s formation, tracing how a vast cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity, collisions, and angular momentum to create a thin, spinning protolanetary disc.
Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
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 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 ...