A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside ...
When the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and expands into a red giant, it will eventually encompass the innermost planets of the solar system, out to about Earth’s orbit. Being closer to our enlarged ...
Scientists used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ...