A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
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Astronomers baffled by discovery of a bizarre 'inside out' solar system
A team of astronomers has identified a four-planet system orbiting the red dwarf star LHS 1903 that defies conventional expectations about how planets arrange themselves around their host stars. The ...
New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...
Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...
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