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Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A cluster of recent discoveries has shattered that tidy picture, revealing ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...