Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...
Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.
In a discovery that feels straight out of Star Wars, astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting a pair of stars some 190 ...
Far beyond our solar system, in the distant Pegasus constellation, lies a star system that is reshaping our understanding of ...