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

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 ...

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

In A Nutshell Arrokoth, a snowman-shaped object billions of miles from Earth, is one of the oldest and least-disturbed relics of the early solar system Scientists have long debated whether its two ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

An astronomy professor explains what exoplanets are, why he keeps looking for them and how Israel intercepts missiles “in ...

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...

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