A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
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Astronomers detect a solar system that challenges formation theory and deepens uncertainty
LHS 1903 flips rock and gas on their heads, hinting that late-born planets can rewrite the rules around common red dwarfs for now.
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside ...
Scientists used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ...
Astronomers found a strange planetary system 116 light-years away. It orbits a red dwarf star called LHS 1903. The planets are arranged in an unexpected order. The outermost planet is rocky, which ...
ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) has revealed a four-planet system whose outermost world is a small and ...
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