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

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The planets are visible throughout February, "but they’ll be lined up best toward the end of the month,” NASA says.

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

"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Telescopes helped researchers track the planet. Britta Pedersen/dpa A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely ...

This discovery is out of this world. For the first time since its operations began in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a direct image, published by the journal Nature, of a new ...

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

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...