With over 2.600 exoplanets discovered, NASA’s Kepler satellite holds the record for the mission with the highest number of exoplanets found. The Kepler mission continued with the Kepler/K2 extension, redefined after technical failures prevented the telescope from maintaining its pointing. Among the many discoveries made possible by Kepler/K2 is evidence that one of the most common types of planets in
The two giant planets of the Solar System, Jupiter and Saturn, played an important role in shaping the properties and architecture of the inner solar system. This may be a quite general rule. The presence of giant planets, for instance, can be responsible for a less effective migration of solids and gas toward the inner part of planetary systems, inhibiting
