Astronomers have long thought solar systems follow a simple pattern similar to our own: small, rocky worlds orbit close to ...

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

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

Inside-out solar system, ancient Inuit seafarers in the High Arctic, infant brains categorize objects, and how plastic and ...

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.

University of Birmingham astronomers joined a global team of scientists to discover a distant planetary system that turns scientific understanding of planet formation upside down. In the Solar System, ...

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 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 ...

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