A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...
The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.
Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...
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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 ...