The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

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.

Typically, from what astronomers have gathered thus far, star systems follow a tidy logic: small, rocky worlds huddle close to the warmth of their star, while massive gas giants bloat up in the colder ...

Of the solar system’s planets, Saturn piques the human imagination with its signature rings and impressive moon count of 274. But compelling new research reignites theories of an ancient collision ...

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: ...

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, ...

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

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