A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
SHOCKED astronomers have spotted a “rogue” planet that defies historic theories. A unique “inside out” planetary system ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
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 ...
Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
University of Warwick astronomers, using an ESA telescope, have discovered a planetary system with a distant rocky world that turns our understanding ...
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A star just devoured a planet for the 1st time, and Earth is on deck
A distant star has just been caught in the act of destroying one of its own worlds, a violent finale astronomers have long predicted but never directly seen. The event offers a preview of the kind of ...
Planets orbiting dead stars known as white dwarfs might be able to remain habitable thanks to general relativity subtly altering their motion. When stars like our sun run out of fuel, they expand and ...
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