A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
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Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form.
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 ...
A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...
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