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, scientists say.
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.
A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course ...
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.