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.

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 ...

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 distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Now researchers think they've solved the mystery of one of the longest star-dimming events ever recorded. The star, called ASASSN-24fw, may have disappeared behind a giant planet with an enormous ...

Scientists used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ...

Sending a mission to the solar gravitational lens (SGL) is the most effective way of actually directly imaging a potentially ...