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

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Astronomers have long believed that planetary systems follow a familiar blueprint. Small rocky planets ...

Six planets will line up in a rare "planetary parade" this month - but spotting them all won't be easy.

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

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 ...

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

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

ALMA observations of the spiral patterns in the disk around the young star IM Lup. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young ...