Earth, neighbors weren’t the first rocky planets in the solar system

A wandering Jupiter helped push an early generation into the sun, new study claims

Illustration of Kepler 11

FIRST DRAFT  The solar system may have once hosted several large rocky planets close to the sun, like Kepler 11 (illustrated) does, before Jupiter swept them away.

Tim Pyle/NASA

Earth and its neighbors aren’t the first rocky planets to circle the sun, a new study suggests.