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

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

The discovery provides a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system as well The discovery provides a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system as well The discovery provides a ...