A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS.

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

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

Typically, from what astronomers have gathered thus far, star systems follow a tidy logic: small, rocky worlds huddle close to the warmth of their star, while massive gas giants bloat up in the colder ...

Scientists used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination ...

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 say a nearby red dwarf star hosts a planetary lineup that looks like a mirror image of our own solar system, with ...

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are ...

University of Warwick astronomers, using an ESA telescope, have discovered a planetary system with a distant rocky world that turns our understanding ...

A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.