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 ...

Deep in the older, denser reaches of the Milky Way, there is a red dwarf star that shouldn’t exist — or at least, its family ...

Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

The discovery overturns traditional models that predicted gas giants in outer orbits and suggests planets can form in gas-poor environments.

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

For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary family. I’m not talking about reviving Pluto’s status, but about a potential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unexpected detection of a new planet has been hailed as a “remarkable discovery” by Irish astronomers who were involved in its ...

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