Scientists puzzled by giant planet orbiting a dwarf star

Scientists are expressing surprise after discovering a solar system 30 light-years away from Earth that defies current understanding about planet formation, with ...

Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered

There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missions like NASA's WFIRST space telescope, according to new models ...

A Weirdly Giant Planet Around a Tiny Star is Defying Astronomer's Expectations

The newly discovered planet, named GJ 3512 b, is half the mass of Jupiter. Researchers think its tiny red dwarf host not only likely harbors an additional massive planet, but also ejected another ...

Giant planet around tiny star 'should not exist'

The Jupiter-like world is unusually large compared with its host star, challenging existing theories.

Exoplanet discovery blurs the line between large planets and small stars

The discovery of yet another exoplanet is no longer news. More than 4,000 planets around other stars have now been found since the detection of the first one in 1995. As astronomers long suspected, ...

Big world around tiny star puts new spin on planet formation

A giant world discovered around a tiny star is putting a new spin on how planets form.

Big planet, tiny star

Astronomers have discovered an unusual pairing for planet formation. Richard A Lovett reports.

An unexpectedly enormous planet is orbiting a tiny star

A surprisingly huge world is orbiting a small star 31 light years away - and it probably formed differently from almost all of the other planets we have spotted

The world that came in from the cold

Astronomers Discover Giant Planet That Shouldn’t Exist

Artist's impression of a Jupiter-like planet with a blueish colour orbiting a cool red dwarf (via CARMENES/RenderArea/J. Bollaín/C. Gallego) Astronomers ...

A gas giant planet that couldn’t have formed the way Jupiter did

At about half the size of Jupiter, GJ 3512 b challenges planet formation models.

Astronomers discovered a gigantic planet that should not exist - CNET

Planet GJ 3512b is challenging existing ideas about planets.

Astronomers Find ‘Impossible’ Planet Circling Tiny Star

(Image credit: Guillem Anglada-Escude—IEEC/Science-wave, using SpaceEngine.org (CC BY 4.0)) There's a huge planet circling a tiny star and our ...

A big planet orbiting a tiny star? Here's how it can happen

A giant planet discovered around a tiny star is putting a new spin on how planets form. In a surprise to scientists, it seems to have arisen straight from gas.

Giant planet found circling tiny red dwarf star

A giant, Jupiter-like planet has been discovered by astronomers in a unique place, orbiting a small red dwarf star.

Scientists puzzled by really big planet orbiting really little star

Scientists are expressing surprise after discovering a solar system 30 light-years away from Earth that defies current understanding about planet formation, with a large Jupiter-like planet ...

Surprise! Giant Planet Found Circling Tiny Red Dwarf Star

Astronomers have discovered a giant, Jupiter-like planet in an unexpected location, and it's orbiting a small, nearby red dwarf star, a new study finds.

Some planets form giant solar systems which orbit supermassive black holes

Researchers from Kagoshima University in Japan found signs not all planets are formed the same way, which is conventionally when dust and gas orbit a star.

Giant exoplanet orbiting tiny star defies current theory of planet formation

Cold, large protoplanetary discs could be more stable than previously thought The post Giant exoplanet orbiting tiny star defies current theory of planet formation appeared first on Physics ...

Weirdly giant planet found around tiny star defies expectations

The massive planet, which shouldn't exist based on current theories, is prompting astronomers to revisit their models for planetary formation.

Giant exoplanet around tiny star challenges understanding of how planets form

Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 An international team of researchers with participation from the University of Gottingen has discovered the first large gas giant orbiting a small star. ...

A planet that should not exist

The red dwarf GJ 3512 is located 30 light-years from us. Although the star is only about a tenth of the mass of the Sun, it possesses a giant planet - an unexpected observation.

When dwarf stars give birth to giant planets

Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 Astronomers of the CARMENES consortium have discovered a new exoplanet that should not exist according to current knowledge. The research group, which ...

Massive exoplanet orbiting tiny star challenges planet formation theory

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Astronomers have discovered a giant Jupiter-like exoplanet in an unlikely location -- orbiting a small red dwarf star.