An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...

A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of calm, pancake-shaped structures of dust and gas, astronomers have now ...

LHS 1903 flips rock and gas on their heads, hinting that late-born planets can rewrite the rules around common red dwarfs for now.

Astronomers have long believed that planetary systems follow a familiar blueprint. Small rocky planets ...

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

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

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 ...

Image of the young nearby 2MASS1612 system (also known as: RIK113) taken with the ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile. The image uses near infrared light that was scattered of the dust particles ...