In a study published on April 27, 2022, an international team of researchers has challenged the mainstream theory on when and how the giant planets in our solar system migrated into their present-day orbits. They have proposed a new scenario which could dramatically move the timeline to as early as five million years, instead of hundreds of millions of years, since the solar system was born. “The proposed mechanism may be one of the missing links in solar-system history,” wrote one of the paper…