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

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

The planetary system, located 120 light-years away, features four worlds orbiting a red dwarf star and challenges classical formation schemes.

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

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

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

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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 ...

A new machine learning model has predicted that there are 44 Earth-like planets in other star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, with researchers from Switzerland claiming that the algorithm at the core ...

Just 40 light-years away lies one of the most remarkable planetary systems ever discovered: TRAPPIST-1, a small red dwarf star orbited by seven Earth-sized planets. Four of those worlds sit within the ...