Newly discovered 'baby' planets could unlock mysteries of planetary evolution
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 21:20
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers scanning the sky for distant worlds have discovered two of the youngest exoplanets ever found. The two worlds, born around separate stars, are each just a few million years old – mere infants compared to the planets in our roughly 4.6-billion-year-old solar system. The findings, described...