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

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

Astronomers have found a compact solar system whose planets line up in a way that, according to current models, should not be ...

In our solar system, the four inner ​planets are rocky and the four outer planets ⁠are gaseous. The rocky dwarf planets like Pluto that orbit beyond the gas planets are much smaller than any of the ...

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.

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 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 ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...