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

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"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

An astrophysicist who discovered water on another planet beyond our solar system was fatally shot outside his home this week. 67-year-old Carl Grillmair had worked with Caltech’s Infrared Processing ...

Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

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

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...

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

Every winter, skiers chase smooth carving turns, reliable snow and that dream run. As the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026 unfold on Earth, it raises a fun question: if the Games ever leave our ...