If you’d like to see all the planets of our solar system, this is a good week to do so. Step outside at dusk and you’ll notice the most obvious of planets ...
But the formation process of multi-planet systems, like our own Solar System, is still poorly understood. The best example object to study multi-planet system formation is a young star known as ...
The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old. Astronomers believe that roughly 100 million years into its existence, the planets first began to form in a rotating, flat cloud of gas ...