A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
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The cosmic clock of the solar system: How angular momentum shaped planetary orbits and regular moons
Explore the story of our solar system’s formation, tracing how a vast cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity, collisions, and angular momentum to create a thin, spinning protolanetary disc.
This video is an artistic representation of a newly discovered system, LHS 3154, which contains a planet far more massive for its sun than current models would predict. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The ...
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