An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

The discovery overturns traditional models that predicted gas giants in outer orbits and suggests planets can form in gas-poor environments.

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Scientists have gained new aerodynamic insight into why many species of birds fly in a V formation. The results, published in the journal Nature, suggest that the distinctive formations are the result ...

LHS 1903 flips rock and gas on their heads, hinting that late-born planets can rewrite the rules around common red dwarfs for now.

Learn more about the time when the moon didn’t exist, and then hours later suddenly did. Einstein once asked whether “the moon exists only when I look at it?". It was rhetorical objection to the idea ...

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“Our job is to ensure our two GRAIL spacecraft are flying a very, very accurate trail formation in lunar orbit,” said David Lehman, GRAIL project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...