Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers ...

Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...

Artist impression of the planetary system with four planets,around a small red star,called LHS1903. Caption: Astronomers have long thought solar systems follow a simple pattern similar to our own: ...

A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS.

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

Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Astronomers say a newly discovered solar system about 116 light years from Earth is challenging long held ideas about how planets form.According to CNN, researchers using telescopes from NASA ...

Explore the story of our solar system’s formation, tracing how a vast cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity, collisions, and angular momentum to create a thin, spinning protolanetary disc.

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...