A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...
Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.
A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet ...
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Astronomers baffled by discovery of a bizarre 'inside out' solar system
A team of astronomers has identified a four-planet system orbiting the red dwarf star LHS 1903 that defies conventional expectations about how planets arrange themselves around their host stars. The ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...
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