Astronomers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b, a Jupiter-mass world less than a million years old that is still gathering material inside a gap in its star's disc, making it comfortably the youngest planet ever found. We also look at new supercomputer simulations suggesting Webb's puzzling little red dots are fast-growing black hole seeds, a white dwarf that came back from the dead as a Wolf-Rayet star, and why Venus was never going to keep a moon.

A group of international researchers have found that super-earths are more common across the universe than we previously thought.

TOI-3261 b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet has been discovered with an extremely tight orbit around its host star.

There is an unbelievable diversity of planets in our Universe, and this week researchers have released their findings about four incredible examples !

“Where are the aliens?” This is the famous Fermi paradox: there are billions, if not trillions of galaxies in our Universe with billions of stars in each, most of which are orbited by one or more planets – why has no alie