It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...

In 2006, Pluto was officially reclassified as a dwarf planet. The decision came down to one controversial rule about clearing ...

Astronomers have spotted an unusual 'inside-out' planetary system where a rocky world seems to have formed far beyond the realm typically reserved for gas giants.

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are ...

The Necklace Nebula (PN G054.2-03.4) formed when one star in a close binary system expanded into a red giant and engulfed its ...

'LHS 1903 breaks this thinking.' ...

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

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

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 ...