Scientists say a nearby red dwarf star hosts a planetary lineup that looks like a mirror image of our own solar system, with ...

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

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

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

We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting ...

Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations -- and suggests these faraway worlds formed in a manner never seen ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

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

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are ...