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

Deep in the older, denser reaches of the Milky Way, there is a red dwarf star that shouldn’t exist — or at least, its family ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, ...

The universe is always moving. While we've found evidence of rogue black holes and planets, new research suggests that a passing star could be out there somewhere. Unfortunately, If it were to swing ...