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

"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of ...

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University of Birmingham astronomers joined a global team of scientists to discover a distant planetary system that turns scientific understanding of planet formation upside down. In the Solar System, ...

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.

In our Solar System, the inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky, and the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gaseous. This planetary pattern – rock then gas - is consistently observed acro ...

Astronomers found a strange planetary system 116 light-years away. It orbits a red dwarf star called LHS 1903. The planets are arranged in an unexpected order. The outermost planet is rocky, which ...

“This strange disorder makes it a unique inside-out system,” first author Dr Thomas Wilson, Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, said in a statement seen by IFLScience. “Rocky planets don ...

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Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

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