Astronomers have discovered a gas giant, TOI-6894b, orbiting a small red dwarf star, challenging existing planet formation models. Giant gas planets aren’t supposed to form around tiny stars. But ...

Astronomers found a giant planet orbiting one of the smallest stars ever known to host one, challenging everything we thought ...

Somehow, a little red dwarf star only one-fifth the size of the sun gave birth to an enormous baby — an exoplanet that is a ...

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely found around the smallest stars, red dwarfs. Red dwarfs simply shouldn't ...

TOI-6894 is roughly 240 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo and is the smallest-known star to host a large planet.

Astronomers have discovered a massive gas giant, TOI-6894b, orbiting the red dwarf star TOI-6894, a pairing that defies current planetary formation th ...

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Astronomers are stunned by a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star. This rare discovery defies existing theories and may change our understanding of planetary formation. The post Giant Planet ...