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Watch a detailed discussion led by Sean Raymond from Bordeaux Observatory, recorded during the "Planets on the Edge" conference at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at UC Santa Barbara. This 1-hour 25-minute session explores key questions about exoplanets discovered by Kepler, TESS, and ground-based telescopes, focusing on Earth-sized planets in short-period orbits that have no direct counterparts in our Solar System. The conference addresses fundamental questions about close-in rocky planets: their nature and atmospheres, formation mechanisms (in-situ vs. migration), parameters that vary between star systems, and why similar planets don't exist around our Sun. Part of a broader KITP program bringing together experts in exoplanet demographics, protoplanetary disks, planet formation models, and meteoritics, this discussion contributes to synthesizing current knowledge and charting future directions for observations, theory, and computational modeling in this field.
