A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...
Typically, from what astronomers have gathered thus far, star systems follow a tidy logic: small, rocky worlds huddle close to the warmth of their star, while massive gas giants bloat up in the colder ...
Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS.
Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
'LHS 1903 breaks this thinking.' ...
For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...