Astronomers confirm Elias 2-24b, calling it the youngest exoplanet detected so far
Keck, ALMA, and VLT data point to a still-growing giant planet in a disk gap about 454 light-years away; the team pegs the system at under about 1 million years old.
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Preprint claims first radio bursts localized to exoplanet Beta Pictoris b
MeerKAT observations are reported as auroral emission implying a ~1,250-gauss field; the study is not peer-reviewed, and outlets stress the signals are not technosignatures.
GJ 3090 b found on a retrograde, highly misaligned orbit around a red dwarf
NIRPS measurements give a Psi angle near 136 degrees with no massive companion to blame; UNIGE-led team floats late secondary-disk accretion as a hypothesis.
Space agencies outline revised timeline for Mars sample-return architecture
Joint briefing updates mission concept studies; no launch date is locked in the new materials.