Astronomers have found a compact solar system whose planets line up in a way that, according to current models, should not be possible. Around the small star LHS 1903, a dense rocky world orbits on ...

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

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

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

There have been questions about a mysterious ninth planet in our solar system for nearly a decade. Pluto was unseated as number nine in 2006. Now, a group of international researchers say they may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of researchers has ...