A Peculiar Solar System Has Scientists Rethinking Theories Of How Planets Form
A surprisingly large planet orbiting a small star defies the conventional wisdom about how planets are born. But a dark-horse idea from more than 20 years ago could explain it.
An oddball solar system discovered not too far from our own is forcing astronomers to reexamine their ideas about how planets get created.
In the journal Science, researchers report they detected a small, dim red dwarf star, about 30 light-years from Earth, being tugged by the gravity of what must be a huge, Jupiter-like planet.
"It's a very large planet, for such a small star," says , an astrophysicist at the Institute of
