An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers ...
An international team of researchers have discovered the moment when planets began to form around a central star. Purdue University astronomer Merel van ‘t Hoff says it’s like finding, “a picture of ...
Astronomers have found a compact solar system whose planets line up in a way that, according to current models, should not be possible. Around the small star LHS 1903, a dense rocky world orbits on ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.