A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course ...
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Inside-out planetary system turns our understanding of how planets form upside-down
We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting ...
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Astronomers baffled by discovery of a bizarre 'inside out' solar system
A team of astronomers has identified a four-planet system orbiting the red dwarf star LHS 1903 that defies conventional expectations about how planets arrange themselves around their host stars. The ...
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