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

A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how planets are formed. This system

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.

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

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 characteristic pattern in planetary systems: rocky planets orbiting close to their host star with gas giants farther away.

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital art of distant planet - Dottedhippo/Getty Images On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is this this T equals zero moment for the like the. The first ...

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust surrounding the early Sun. Once they were large enough, they attracted large amounts of gas.