In the above animation, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn are shown orbiting the barycentre of our solar system. The barycentre is ...

a fraction of our solar system's 4.6 billion years. Still hot from their violent formation, HR 8799 planets emit large ...

but astronomers believe it dates back around 4.5 billion years to the formation of the solar system's planets. These asteroids are thought to consist of leftover planetesimals, the building blocks ...

The images suggest key giant exoplanets likely formed like Jupiter and Saturn. In a groundbreaking discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first direct images of carbon dioxide ...

Most models of the solar system aren't completely accurate, and there's a good reason for that. It's not laziness or scientific misunderstanding - an accurate, to-scale portrayal of the solar ...

and so is young compared to our solar system, which has existed for 4.6 billion years. Still hot from their violent formation, the planets of HR 8799 emit large amounts of infrared light.