A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...

Astronomers have found a compact solar system whose planets line up in a way that, according to current models, should not be ...

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

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet ...

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 ...

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.

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations – and suggests these faraway worlds formed in a manner never seen ...

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

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...