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

A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...

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

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

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

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital art of distant planet - Dottedhippo/Getty Images On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by ...

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

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