A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
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Astronomers baffled by discovery of a bizarre 'inside out' solar system
A team of astronomers has identified a four-planet system orbiting the red dwarf star LHS 1903 that defies conventional expectations about how planets arrange themselves around their host stars. The ...
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Inside-out planetary system turns our understanding of how planets form upside-down
We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting closer to their stars than Mercury, and rocky worlds much larger than Earth ...
Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you ...
Astronomers using planet-hunting satellites have discovered a rare solar system with six planets moving completely in sync with one another, as if they were untouched by any outside force since being ...
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