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.

This week, Venus and Mars come close together in our night sky - ideal for naked-eye astronomy.

Seems like right now is the best and craziest time to get into astronomy and planetary exploration.

Our understanding of our closest companions in space is far from complete: there are 8 planets, over 200 moons and many more small objects like dwarf planets, asteroids and comets to look at.