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

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 ...

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

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

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

The idea of waging war in orbit is no longer a figment of science fiction. As satellite technologies and launch capabilities ...

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

Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...

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

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

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