Planetary migration occurs when a planet or other body in orbit around a star interacts with a disk of gas or planetesimals, resulting in the alteration...

halting near its current orbit at 5.2 AU. The reversal of Jupiter's planetary migration is likened to the path of a sailboat changing directions (tacking)...

giant very close to the star have been found. Theories, such as planetary migration or scattering, have been proposed for the formation of large planets...

the migration of planetary embryos followed by collisions and mergers, or the radial drift of small solids from farther out in the disk. The migration of...

System due to gravitational interactions during the chaotic phase of planetary migration, approximately 4 billion years ago. The Nice model, developed in...

hypothesized Planet Nine in the Solar System. (Planetary migration is a competing explanation.) Planetary capture (possibly planet swapping with neighboring...

physical chemistry and materials Planetary migration, the alteration of the satellite's orbital parameters Migration (virtualization), the process by...

might have shifted due to gravitational interactions. The process of planetary migration explains parts of the Solar System's current structure. In roughly...

giant planet migration in 2008. Fogg lives in London. Fogg's scientific work started in 1985, with work on simulating extrasolar planetary systems. Starting...

differs from earlier models of the Solar System's formation. This planetary migration is used in dynamical simulations of the Solar System to explain historical...

Bitsch, B.; Mustill, A.J.; Turrini, D. (March 2019). "Consequences of planetary migration on the minor bodies of the early solar system". Astronomy & Astrophysics...

exoplanets. As of 5 June 2025, there are 5,917 confirmed exoplanets in 4,413 planetary systems, with 994 systems having more than one planet. Most of these were...

object Theoretical concepts Accretion Initial mass function Jeans instability Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism Nebular hypothesis Planetary migration v t e...

Simulations indicate that this system of resonances must have formed via planetary migration. Kepler-80 d, e, b, c and g have periods in a ~ 1.000: 1.512: 2.296:...

trojans to be captured when the planetary migration continues. For high-inclination trojans to be captured the migration must have been slow, or their inclinations...

object Theoretical concepts Accretion Initial mass function Jeans instability Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism Nebular hypothesis Planetary migration v t e...

object Theoretical concepts Accretion Initial mass function Jeans instability Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism Nebular hypothesis Planetary migration v t e...

(1920s), an American record company of the 1920s Homestead, fictional planetary migration company, Passengers Homestead (film), a 2024 American post-apocalyptic...

called protoplanetary discs because they are probably the progenitors of planetary systems like the Solar System. Circumstellar discs are estimated to dissipate...

multi-resonant planetary system. As the eccentricities of the planetesimals are excited by gravitational encounters with Pluto-mass objects, an inward migration of...

Bitsch, B.; Mustill, A. J.; Turrini, D. (2019). "Consequences of planetary migration on the minor bodies of the early solar system". Astronomy & Astrophysics...

nebular gas, never reached that critical point. Recent simulations of planetary migration have suggested that both ice giants formed closer to the Sun than...

object Theoretical concepts Accretion Initial mass function Jeans instability Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism Nebular hypothesis Planetary migration v t e...

object Theoretical concepts Accretion Initial mass function Jeans instability Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism Nebular hypothesis Planetary migration v t e...

dynamics result in some effects which are unidirectional (for example, planetary migration). Secular phenomena create variations in the orbits of the Moon and...

object Theoretical concepts Accretion Initial mass function Jeans instability Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism Nebular hypothesis Planetary migration v t e...

object Theoretical concepts Accretion Initial mass function Jeans instability Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism Nebular hypothesis Planetary migration v t e...

with theories of planet formation and resulted in discussions of planetary migration. However, several hot Jupiters are now known to be oblique relative...

object Theoretical concepts Accretion Initial mass function Jeans instability Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism Nebular hypothesis Planetary migration v t e...

migrate far from the star. In both types of migrations, the Solar System belts are lost in these planetary migrations. The Grand tack hypothesis explains how...