A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...
The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.
Astronomers have spotted an unusual 'inside-out' planetary system where a rocky world seems to have formed far beyond the realm typically reserved for gas giants.
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers ...
With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...
A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.
Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...
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