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

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

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: ...

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

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 ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

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Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...