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

We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting ...

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

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

Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

In the latest scientific discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope shocks space enthusiasts by revealing an unusual object that ...

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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 ...

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