A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...
The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.
We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
The planetary system, located 120 light-years away, features four worlds orbiting a red dwarf star and challenges classical formation schemes.
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.