Antarctica plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system by reflecting solar radiation back into space. The large white ice ...
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, ...
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'Inside-out' planetary system changes ideas of how new worlds form
Astronomers have long thought solar systems follow a simple pattern similar to our own: small, rocky worlds orbit close to ...
Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
The discovery provides new insights into the question, 'how large can a planet be?' An illustration of the HR 8799 system with three of its gas ...
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.
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
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