An EU-funded project has advanced our understanding of how planetary systems are created by looking at how planets and moons interact. In doing so, this fascinating study might have helped unlock the secrets to the origins of our own moon.
Thousands of exoplanets have been detected and characterised over the past two decades. Research into how these formed however has tended to focus on the properties of individual planets, even though many exoplanets reside in multi-planet systems.
Further details: Understanding how planetary systems evolved