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

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

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

Planet groupings occur every few years and are visually appealing but not rare. While some social media claims exaggerate ...

Gravity seems constant but it turns out, Earth is weirder than that. Gravity actually wobbles a bit across the planet. And ...

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

Planets are often described as ancient, unchanging worlds. Planets are born out of chaos, shaped by violent collisions and swirling dust. They grow, t.

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 discover an unusual planetary system with a rocky planet formed outside its gaseous neighbors, challenging ...

Denver Museum of Nature & Science invites visitors on an exploration of biodiversity with "Brick Planet." ...

Planets are born, and they can also "die." So what's the lifespan of a typical planet?

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