MeerKAT and the James Webb Space Telescope have traced a fast radio burst back to redshift 2.148, when the Universe was only three billion years old, roughly doubling the distance record for a localised burst. We also cover a new study splitting the galaxy's planetary systems into two distinct families shaped by their host stars, the first genuinely green star ever identified, and a radio phoenix found hiding behind the plane of the Milky Way.

A recurring cloud over the Martian volcano Arsia Mons turns out to freeze straight out of water vapour, with no dust grain to seed it, a process never before caught in any planetary atmosphere. We also look at the first interstellar detection of fully deuterated methanol by ALMA, a white dwarf that may be feeding on a planet born after its star died, and three quiet dwarf galaxies near M101 found in public archive data by a first year undergraduate.

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.