The new exoplanet Elias 2-24 b is the youngest ever discovered, still forming in a cloud of debris around a young star just ...

A dead star’s wreckage may be the birthplace of a new planet. The existence of second-generation planets was predicted ...

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has helped astronomers achieve a world first: detecting radio signals directly from a planet ...

This summer, exoplanet science — the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun — took a big step forwards. Reports of ...

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Astronomers have made the recent discovery and say the new planet is a exoplanet which is forming in a cloud of debris around a young star and is less than one million years old.