As you will know if you have been following the saga of the EU entry-exit system, more and more British travellers are becoming subject to the digital borders scheme for the Schengen area, which is ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...

A team of international astronomers has announced the discovery of an "inside-out" planetary system that defies the established understanding of planetary patterns. The system features four planets ...

University of Birmingham astronomers joined a global team of scientists to discover a distant planetary system that turns scientific understanding of planet formation upside down. In the Solar System, ...

PARIS — Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations -- and suggests these faraway worlds formed in a manner ...

Artist impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903. (ESA/CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) Deep in the older, denser reaches of the Milky Way, there is a red dwarf star that shouldn’t exist — or at ...

LHS 1903 is a small red M-dwarf star that is cooler and shines less brightly than our sun. Credit: ESA. Astronomers have discovered a surprising planetary system that does not follow the usual rules ...

A strange planetary system has left scientists baffled – as it appears to be 'inside out'. The system includes four planets around a cool faint red dwarf star, which scientists have named LHS 1903.

Like a double-stuffed Oreo of planetary proportions, the star LHS 1903 boasts two rocky exoplanets sandwiching two gaseous ones. From the star outward, the lineup — rocky-gaseous-gaseous-rocky — ...