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 compact solar system whose planets line up in a way that, according to current models, should not be ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.
In our Solar System, the inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky, and the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gaseous. This planetary pattern – rock then gas - is consistently observed acro ...
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital art of distant planet - Dottedhippo/Getty Images On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by ...
A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.
This weekend, six planets are set to share the sky in a rare “planet parade,” giving stargazers a short but magical window to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration showing Planet Nine, a hypothetical, undiscovered planet in our solar system. New research now suggests the ...