Deep in the older, denser reaches of the Milky Way, there is a red dwarf star that shouldn’t exist — or at least, its family ...
The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...