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

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 ...

Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...

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.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

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

'LHS 1903 breaks this thinking.' ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...