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

Astronomers studying a dim red dwarf star called LHS 1903 have found a four-planet system with an architecture that defies the standard rules of how rocky worlds take shape. The outermost planet in ...

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

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

In our Solar System, the inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky, and the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gaseous.

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

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

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 ...

SHOCKED astronomers have spotted a “rogue” planet that defies historic theories. A unique “inside out” planetary system with a distant rocky world turns our ...

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

Astronomers have probed deeper than before into a planetary system 130 light-years from Earth. The observations mark the first results of a new exoplanet survey called LEECH (LBT Exozodi Exoplanet ...