Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.
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Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...
With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...
Our Solar System contains eight planets (sorry, Pluto) orbiting around the Sun. But while all planets are important members of the club, if we’re being honest, we know there’s a crown jewel of our ...
From a gas giant so light it would float like a cork (TrES-4b) to a world where it rains molten iron (WASP-76b), the universe is full of planets that shatter our imagination. This video dives into the ...
Astronomers have found what appears to be one of the strangest known worlds in the universe. It orbits a type of rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar – this in itself is unusual, but it is ...
Scientists used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ...
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