An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...
The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.
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.
Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...
Relatedly, astronomers may have just pushed the upper size limit of what counts as a planet.
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