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An artist's impression of the planetary system surrounding LHS 1903, a small red dwarf star cooler and dimmer than our Sun. (European Space Agency) (CN) — For decades, astronomers thought they had ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

In their study, the astronomers found that a supermassive black hole’s outer disk and torus could foster this cumulative ...

New simulations suggest that various meteorite families may have formed in the same ancient ring near Jupiter.

Instead they circled a pulsar, the dead remains of an exploded star. Clearly nature excels at making planets, even under ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

Tatooine-like planets with two suns may be more common than we think. That's because new research suggests that binary star systems could actually offer more favorable environments for planet ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying long-standing theories of planet formation. The finding hints that some ...