Exoplanets' complex orbital structure points to planetary migration in solar systems
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system seem to have little in common with the planets of Earth's own solar system. And yet a new study shows that the Kepler-223 system is trapped in an orbital configuration that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune may have broken from in the early history of the solar system.