In our Solar System, the inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky, and the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gaseous. This planetary pattern – rock then gas - is consistently observed acro ...

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

The curious minds at What If analyze what happens if Jupiter swallowed every planet, exploring gravitational disruption, ...

Discover the Kuiper Belt: a frozen ring of dwarf planets and trillions of icy bodies, currently being explored by NASA's New Horizons mission.

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

Astronomers found a strange planetary system 116 light-years away. It orbits a red dwarf star called LHS 1903. The planets are arranged in an unexpected order. The outermost planet is rocky, which ...

'LHS 1903 breaks this thinking.' ...

A global team of astronomers, in a project conceived at and co-led by the University of St Andrews, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope ...

A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.

A strange planetary system has left scientists baffled – as it appears to be 'inside out'. The system includes four planets ...

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