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

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

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

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

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

We refer to our own solar system as the solar system, and in a sense, it is the only one of its kind. For centuries, our sun was known as Sol, latin for sun and the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprising planetary system that does not follow the usual rules of how planets form. The ...

For a decade and a half, astronomers have been on the trail of a galactic mystery. In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — ...

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Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

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