Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous neighbors, possibly after much of the ...

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

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

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.

Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

Astronomers have uncovered a planetary system that challenges conventional theories of planet formation. The system likely includes a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

The system, observed using the European Space Agency's Cheops space telescope, consists of four planets — two rocky and two ...