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 of planets shouldn’t look the way it does. The star is LHS 1903, and it ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange giant planet that seems to break the usual rules of how planets form. Known as TOI-5205 b, this world has been nicknamed a “forbidden planet” because it orbits a ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise direction. However, the universe never ceases to amaze us with its unexpected ...