What can rocky planets orbiting in the outer parts of a solar system teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study | Space ...

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

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

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

Scientists say a nearby red dwarf star hosts a planetary lineup that looks like a mirror image of our own solar system, with ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

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

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

Typically, from what astronomers have gathered thus far, star systems follow a tidy logic: small, rocky worlds huddle close to the warmth of their star, while massive gas giants bloat up in the colder ...