A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS.

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems 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 ...

Typically, from what astronomers have gathered thus far, star systems follow a tidy logic: small, rocky worlds huddle close to the warmth of their star, while massive gas giants bloat up in the colder ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.

In our Solar System, the inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky, and the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gaseous. This planetary pattern – rock then gas - is consistently observed acro ...

SHOCKED astronomers have spotted a “rogue” planet that defies historic theories. A unique “inside out” planetary system ...

Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations -- and suggests these faraway worlds formed in a manner never seen ...

University of Warwick astronomers, using an ESA telescope, have discovered a planetary system with a distant rocky world that turns our understanding ...

A newly discovered planet orbiting a distant star may change scientists’ understanding of how planetary systems form. View on ...

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