A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
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Astronomers spot a solar system that by all logic should not exist
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 ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
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When did our solar system's planets form? Discovery of tiny meteorite may challenge the timeline
Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
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