The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.

"Abnormal, chaotic and strange" are just a few adjectives astronomers are using to describe a perplexing planetary system 60 light-years from Earth. And for one of the two exoplanets orbiting the ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: giant planets that loop around their stars on orbits so skewed they almost defy ...

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Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit so close to their stars that their surfaces are shrouded in thick ...

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